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mico

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2004-02-08

Posts: 247

Times New Roman

What do I have to do to get this font? In OpenOffice I can select Times, but not also Times New Roman. Times is of no use, because it's a printer font and some characters get garbled when they are printed. At some point I was able to select also Times New Roman, then again not. I have no idea what I did...

I have these pkgs installed:
openoffice-base 1.1.4-3
fontconfig 2.3.0-3
freetype1 1.3.1-2
freetype2 2.1.9-2
ttf-ms-fonts 1.3-6

I really, really need this font... thanks for any help.

arooaroo

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2005-01-13

Posts: 1,268

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Re: Times New Roman

ttf-ms-fonts did it for me.

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shadowhand

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From: MN, USA

Registered: 2004-02-19

Posts: 1,142

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Re: Times New Roman

It's part of the ttf-ms-fonts package. Try restarting X.

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mico

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2004-02-08

Posts: 247

Re: Times New Roman

restarting X doens't help. But I got it working, sort of ... I disabled that font in KDE contol center and enabled it again. Then openoffice finally recognized the font, but after reboot it was gone again. Now everytime I use this font in openoffice I have to disable/enable it in kcontrol. I noticed the same happens with some other fonts, like Comic Sans MS.

EDIT: FIXED IT! It was the font path in xorg.conf, I don't know why I didn't think of this before

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: Times New Roman

It was the font path in xorg.conf, I don't know why I didn't think of this before

thanks, my font works to now  8)

Mith

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From: out there

Registered: 2004-10-05

Posts: 163

Re: Times New Roman

what path exactly did you add / edit?

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mico

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2004-02-08

Posts: 247

Re: Times New Roman

what path exactly did you add / edit?

diff /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.wrong-font-paths
24c24
<       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
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>       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
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>       FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
>       FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
>       FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
>       FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
>       FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
>       FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
>       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID"
>       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType"