[Solved, install dejavu font] Libre Office fonts are rendered as boxes

MoonSwan · 2014-02-02 22:58:17

Been a while since I've posted and thank you in advance for any help offered.

My issue is pretty straight forward: all my menus and fonts in Libre Office Writer show up as boxes instead of letters. I have searched the wiki and forums for a solution but most people who have this problem fix the issue by installing the right language pack.

As you can see below that isn't my issue:

local/libreoffice-common 4.1.4-3 (libreoffice)
    common files for LibreOffice - a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites
local/libreoffice-en-US 4.1.4-3
    English (US) language pack for LibreOffice
local/libreoffice-writer 4.1.4-3 (libreoffice)
    Word Processor Application for LibreOffice.

I have no plug-ins installed apart from hunspell, mythes and hyphenation. I removed these packages but there was no change.

This machine is a Dell laptop with the Intel video chip and thus I have the correct driver installed and everything else works fine:

:root: ~ : pacman -Qs intel
local/intel-dri 10.0.2-1
    Mesa drivers for Intel
local/xf86-video-intel 2.99.907-2 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers

I tried nuking my Libre Office directory in my home directory but that yielded no change. My .gtk-* directories don't contain anything specific to LO.

These are the only fonts I've added to this install (thanks boohoomil) and are not customised in any way:

local/cairo-infinality-ultimate 1.12.16-3 (infinality-bundle)
    Cairo vector graphics library with respect-fontconfig, expose and Ubuntu patches (infinality-bundle)
local/fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15 (infinality-bundle)
    A library for configuring and customizing font access (includes generic fontconfig package and ultimate settings by bohoomil).
local/freetype2-infinality-ultimate 2.5.2-3 (infinality-bundle)
    TrueType font rendering library with Infinality patches and custom settings by bohoomil (infinality-bundle).

I have gone so far as to try snapwm and Xfce4 but there is no difference in the font rendering in LO.

I'm stymied about this because I have used this setup previously on this and two other machines. Any ideas?

MS

Last edited by MoonSwan (2014-02-03 04:54:16)

nomorewindows · 2014-02-02 23:50:47

Sounds like you're missing some fonts.

MoonSwan · 2014-02-03 00:10:07

I thought of that but, as I use the infinality-bundle, which fonts do I need to test this hypothesis? Or can you suggest one I can install from the official repos?

[edit] Just after posting this I remembered that LO, as noted on the wiki somewhere, suggest one install the ttf-dejavu font. After installing this font everything is now showing correctly.

@nomorewindows, Thank you very much! I feel a bit silly but I learned something from this and for that I grateful to you.

Last edited by MoonSwan (2014-02-03 00:14:13)

skottish · 2014-02-03 00:17:26

You may want to install infinality-bundle-fonts with infinality-bundle

MoonSwan · 2014-02-03 04:48:54

*Many facepalms later* ... Thank you very much skottish. When I installed Arch on this laptop I thought I just needed to install the infinality-ultimate font sets. Thank you, I'll be doing exactly that, skottish.

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#1 2014-02-02 22:58:17

[Solved, install dejavu font] Libre Office fonts are rendered as boxes

#2 2014-02-02 23:50:47

Re: [Solved, install dejavu font] Libre Office fonts are rendered as boxes

#3 2014-02-03 00:10:07

Re: [Solved, install dejavu font] Libre Office fonts are rendered as boxes

#4 2014-02-03 00:17:26

Re: [Solved, install dejavu font] Libre Office fonts are rendered as boxes

#5 2014-02-03 04:48:54

Re: [Solved, install dejavu font] Libre Office fonts are rendered as boxes

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