Re: emergency: Openoffice, Fonts, what a mess
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:54:19PM -0800, David wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:12:13AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > today, I did the usual apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on my
> > girfriend's machine.
> > In the process, the Openoffice backport was upgraded from 1.0.xx to
> > 1.1.xx. This has severe side effects.
> >
> > In short: practically all the homework she has done over the christmas
> > holidays (and has to submit tomorrow morning) has been messed up quite a
> > bit. Going over it manually would take hours even if she was fresh and
> > wide awake -- however, it's already early in the morning over here.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, it is related to fonts having magically
> > disappeared. At any rate, she now has only five fonts available to chose
>
> Would enabling True Type fonts help?
>
> Try this link:
> http://home.t-online.de/home/c.ehbrecht/WebWiki/TrueTypeFonts.html
> I rember finding a *REALLY* good howto online. I don't think this is
> it, but if I find it I'll follow up.
>
> I wish you the best of luck on this.
Here's the the link:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TT-Debian.html#toc3
and also this looks good:
www.linuxtransfer.com/h/installation_truetypefonts.pdf
Even refers to using the fonts in OpenOffice.
>
> > from -- in effect the layout has been garbled.
> > The symbol font she originally used (don't as which) is also gone. Now
> > there's OpenSymbol available, but all the greek letters she has entered
> > so far are merely blanks.
> >
> > I'm quite at a loss, and she's in tears. I have no clue what actually
> > has happened other than the now missing fonts. Nor do I know what
> > actually has been changed in this painsome upgrade, or how I could find
> > out, or undo it.
> >
> > If anybody has a clue what has happened, or even knows a fix, please
> > tell me. Anything. Doesn't need to be nice, as long as we can print her
> > stuff the way it was meant to look like.
> >
> > My own approach to the problem will be to install as many fonts as I can
> > in the hope that things will be in order once the fonts she originally
> > used are available again. However, I don't know where to get them other
> > than by picking packages through aptitude. I think I installed
> > everything that seemed appropriate for western europe, but I'll look
> > again after this is sent.
> >
> > In the meantime, she'll start going over her files manually.
> >
> > She says the fonts she used were "Times" and "Symbol".
> > IIRC, those were from Microsoft. Someday, I had a package that
> > downloaded them. I don't even know which package that was, or why they
> > now seem to be gone.
> >
> > Any help would be great.
> >
> >
> > TIA,
> > Schnobs
> >
> >
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