On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Mike Fabian wrote:
I am not absolutely sure which fonts you are using now, but I guess you have xtt-fonts.rpm rpm installed and the "Gothic" font which you select in OpenOffice is wadalab-gothic.ttf from the xtt-fonts.rpm.
That's right.
I recommend to install the free Japanese Kochi TrueType fonts:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-noarch/ttf-kochi-gothic-0.2.20020727-3.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-noarch/ttf-kochi-mincho-0.2.20020727-3.rpm
The Kochi fonts look more beautiful than the xtt-fonts and are less buggy. They also have a Unicode charmap, whereas the xtt-fonts only have a SJIS charmap.
Well, I have tried them, but I can see no difference whatsoever. They appear the same and print the same, so I'm actually not quite sure that, when I select Gothic or Mincho from the pull-down font menu, OO takes the new kochi fonts and not the old watanabe/wadalab ones. Also, the latin characters still behave the same way: not displayed (only blank space) but printed correctly. There's only one visible change: the application fonts (those in the menues and the status bar) have become lousy. It seems OO now uses the kochi-mincho fonts for the application and I cannot make it pick another one by the standard X command line option -fn. How can it be set? Also, how can I ensure that by Gothic/Mincho OO means the new kochi fonts? Cheers, Karoly