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#1 2008-09-26 14:57:56

schuay
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Openoffice unreadable!

I'm experiencing a problem where all Openoffice fonts, including menus turn unreadable.. See attached screenshot.

Currently I'm using openoffice-base-beta 3.0_00300_m6-1. However, I've also had this issue using the stable OO release, and upgrading to beta fixed it.

xset -q returns a fontpath of /usr/share/fonts/misc, and the gnome fonts are set correctly to Sans. Changing fonts in OpenOffice is impossible since there is only one in the selection box.

I have no idea how to solve this and it prevents me from using openoffice at all.. Can anybody help?

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Last edited by schuay (2008-09-26 14:58:41)

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#2 2008-09-26 15:33:17

Berseker
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Re: Openoffice unreadable!

try to install gsfonts package

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#3 2008-09-26 15:39:19

moljac024
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Re: Openoffice unreadable!

So that's unreadable to you ? Maybe you should go looking for some glasses....


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#4 2008-09-26 15:41:58

schuay
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Re: Openoffice unreadable!

berserker, thanks for the tip, now it works! is there a good reason why gsfonts isn't a dependency of openoffice?

moljac024 wrote:

So that's unreadable to you ? Maybe you should go looking for some glasses....

you know , i actually did double check right now to see if i wasn't going crazy at last big_smile

Last edited by schuay (2008-09-26 19:57:02)

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#5 2008-09-26 19:41:47

AndyRTR
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Re: Openoffice unreadable!

gsfonts isn't s dependency of OpenOffice. OOo just requieres a certain amount of basic fonts installed and properly configured.

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#6 2008-09-26 19:42:38

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Re: Openoffice unreadable!

moljac024 wrote:

So that's unreadable to you ? Maybe you should go looking for some glasses....

Lol. Funniest guy I know tongue


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#7 2008-09-26 19:54:26

schuay
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Re: Openoffice unreadable!

AndyRTR wrote:

gsfonts isn't s dependency of OpenOffice. OOo just requieres a certain amount of basic fonts installed and properly configured.

prior to installing gsfonts, i had freetype2 and libxft installed.. are those not applicable or were/are they configured badly? or in other words, how come OO needs different fonts than gnome/X ?
thanks for the clarification.

Last edited by schuay (2008-09-26 19:55:53)

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#8 2008-09-26 21:07:15

AndyRTR
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Re: Openoffice unreadable!

if i remember right ttf-dejavu is the most essential one. but that depends on what locale/font types you are running, a Chinese desktop would need some different ttf fonts.

and make sure basic Xorg fonts paths are set properly in /etc/X11/xorg.conf ! check the X log file wink

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