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Re: [suse-kde] Fonts and KDE 3 and SuSE 8.0
- From: linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 03 Oct 2002 07:57:22 +0000
- Message-id: <1033631842.5598.2.camel@suse81>
Kevin
I am new to this so i don't know if you have already been through this
process but...
To get all the TrueType fonts into OpenOffice you have to import them in
through OOo Printer Setup - there is a button there called "Fonts", just
point it to your fonts directory.
Hope i'm not teaching granny how to suck eggs,
Tim
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 00:23, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
>
> So far tonight, I have neglected my diabetic pet,
> bent the frame of my cubicle from punching it
> in absolute wordless rage and frustration, and
> severely frightened the poor woman
> who came to empty the wastebaskets and saw
> the look on my face.
>
> I have job deadline looming, and documents
> that aren't anywhere near finished, and no fonts.
>
> I have OpenOffice 1.0.1.
>
> My documents seem to display in one single sheisenfont.
> That is, no matter what I choose for the font attribute of
> a Paragraph Style or a Character Style, they are all and
> always substituted by the exrementafont.
>
> Once again, I have gone to the KDE Control Center, and
> System, and Font Installer.
>
> I heeded the warning that I must use Administrator Mode
> if I want my font-ish stuff applied globally.
>
> I viewed the dual windows with "Install From:" on the left,
> and "Install To:" on the right. There's nothing of
> importance in the "Install From:" window.
> The "Install To:" window already has dozens... hundreds,
> thousands of fonts in X11 Fonts Directory. There are files
> in the /75dpi directory, in the /Speedo directory, in the
> /Type1 directory, in the /URW directory, in the /misc
> directory, in the /truetype directory, in the /uni directory
> ... do I really need to go on????
>
> They are bloody THERE! I'm looking at them... hundreds
> and hundreds of font files of several types. They are
> sitting there, apparently mocking me, in what
> this interface implies is ALREADY the place where
> fonts are supposed to go. There is nothing to suggest that
> I should need to perform some additional step. There's no
> other button to press, or field to fill in.
>
> Many of the names of those font files appear in the
> pick-lists within OpenOffice and other K and X applications.
> But it doesn't matter. I can pick any font I like, for any
> purpose (except for window dressing, which has flavors
> of Nimbus, and seems to work). It doesn't matter what
> I pick, it will be substituted for that one, single, ugly
> pieceofcrap font. I don't know what the
> substitute font is (it's something that runs the letters
> together and generally looks too ugly to NOT be
> intentional), and I don't care.
>
> When the "obvious" things, within the KDE interface
> did NOTHING to access the fonts that are all sitting
> there, I looked back in e-mails in this list, and went
> to the suggested SDB pages for 7.3 and 7.1 and did
> what they suggested, and it had a wonderful effect...
> NOT A DAMN THING! There are now a couple of
> extra files in /etc, and nothing at all has changed.
> Yes, I exited and restarted. No effect.
>
> What are all those .pfa, and .pfb, and .spd, and .pcf.gz,
> and .ttf files FOR, if they all already appear in the
> directories where the System>Font Installer (root)
> expects them to be, and they STILL %$#@&!! refuse
> to appear in my documents and applications?
>
> What is the Font Installer FOR, if not to install the
> fonts??
>
> I have looked and looked and looked, and there is
> NO function or button or menu item that says:
> "Activate all the fonts that are already installed
> and uselessly sitting there." Really. I looked.
>
> I ran the Qt Configuration utility, and it was useless.
> I don't *need* to specify a substitution font... I need
> the bloody, actual FONTS!
>
> If the KDE Control Center is not able to make
> all the required things happen, it should not pretend
> that it can.
>
> The night security people are kicking out stragglers
> now, so I have to leave, with my work undone and
> in disarray. Tonight would not be a good night for
> anybody to be jaywalking, or driving badly in my
> city... Tomorrow will be really fun, explaining why
> I don't have the work done.
>
> Why is it this way? What is the purpose of making
> it this way? Why the mocking list of all the fonts
> that refuse to appear in my documents?
>
> If there is an "Activate your fonts" function, why
> must it be hidden somewhere? Whose idea was
> this?
>
> /kevin (beyond frustration in Ottawa, Canada)
>
>
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> Please do not cross-post to suse-linux-e
>
>
I am new to this so i don't know if you have already been through this
process but...
To get all the TrueType fonts into OpenOffice you have to import them in
through OOo Printer Setup - there is a button there called "Fonts", just
point it to your fonts directory.
Hope i'm not teaching granny how to suck eggs,
Tim
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 00:23, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
>
> So far tonight, I have neglected my diabetic pet,
> bent the frame of my cubicle from punching it
> in absolute wordless rage and frustration, and
> severely frightened the poor woman
> who came to empty the wastebaskets and saw
> the look on my face.
>
> I have job deadline looming, and documents
> that aren't anywhere near finished, and no fonts.
>
> I have OpenOffice 1.0.1.
>
> My documents seem to display in one single sheisenfont.
> That is, no matter what I choose for the font attribute of
> a Paragraph Style or a Character Style, they are all and
> always substituted by the exrementafont.
>
> Once again, I have gone to the KDE Control Center, and
> System, and Font Installer.
>
> I heeded the warning that I must use Administrator Mode
> if I want my font-ish stuff applied globally.
>
> I viewed the dual windows with "Install From:" on the left,
> and "Install To:" on the right. There's nothing of
> importance in the "Install From:" window.
> The "Install To:" window already has dozens... hundreds,
> thousands of fonts in X11 Fonts Directory. There are files
> in the /75dpi directory, in the /Speedo directory, in the
> /Type1 directory, in the /URW directory, in the /misc
> directory, in the /truetype directory, in the /uni directory
> ... do I really need to go on????
>
> They are bloody THERE! I'm looking at them... hundreds
> and hundreds of font files of several types. They are
> sitting there, apparently mocking me, in what
> this interface implies is ALREADY the place where
> fonts are supposed to go. There is nothing to suggest that
> I should need to perform some additional step. There's no
> other button to press, or field to fill in.
>
> Many of the names of those font files appear in the
> pick-lists within OpenOffice and other K and X applications.
> But it doesn't matter. I can pick any font I like, for any
> purpose (except for window dressing, which has flavors
> of Nimbus, and seems to work). It doesn't matter what
> I pick, it will be substituted for that one, single, ugly
> pieceofcrap font. I don't know what the
> substitute font is (it's something that runs the letters
> together and generally looks too ugly to NOT be
> intentional), and I don't care.
>
> When the "obvious" things, within the KDE interface
> did NOTHING to access the fonts that are all sitting
> there, I looked back in e-mails in this list, and went
> to the suggested SDB pages for 7.3 and 7.1 and did
> what they suggested, and it had a wonderful effect...
> NOT A DAMN THING! There are now a couple of
> extra files in /etc, and nothing at all has changed.
> Yes, I exited and restarted. No effect.
>
> What are all those .pfa, and .pfb, and .spd, and .pcf.gz,
> and .ttf files FOR, if they all already appear in the
> directories where the System>Font Installer (root)
> expects them to be, and they STILL %$#@&!! refuse
> to appear in my documents and applications?
>
> What is the Font Installer FOR, if not to install the
> fonts??
>
> I have looked and looked and looked, and there is
> NO function or button or menu item that says:
> "Activate all the fonts that are already installed
> and uselessly sitting there." Really. I looked.
>
> I ran the Qt Configuration utility, and it was useless.
> I don't *need* to specify a substitution font... I need
> the bloody, actual FONTS!
>
> If the KDE Control Center is not able to make
> all the required things happen, it should not pretend
> that it can.
>
> The night security people are kicking out stragglers
> now, so I have to leave, with my work undone and
> in disarray. Tonight would not be a good night for
> anybody to be jaywalking, or driving badly in my
> city... Tomorrow will be really fun, explaining why
> I don't have the work done.
>
> Why is it this way? What is the purpose of making
> it this way? Why the mocking list of all the fonts
> that refuse to appear in my documents?
>
> If there is an "Activate your fonts" function, why
> must it be hidden somewhere? Whose idea was
> this?
>
> /kevin (beyond frustration in Ottawa, Canada)
>
>
> --
> To unsubscribe, email: suse-kde-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx
> For additional commands, email: suse-kde-help@xxxxxxxx
> Please do not cross-post to suse-linux-e
>
>
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