Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Terence McCarthy <saki.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 00:32:34 -0400
Joe Zien <jozien@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>    Hey all,
>            Since Robert's original thoughts were about fonts, can we get back to
> 
>    those for a minute?  After installing OO 1.0 with SuSE 8.0, I found it
>    to work very well overall and the fonts were very nice that were
>    included with the download.  Since then, I have added some truetype
>    fonts and seem to work very well with the program.  I also added some
>    other Type 1 fonts, so that all the KDE programs could use them and OO
>    1.0 did not like those at all.
> 
>    Most of the fonts will not even display on screen nor print.  Whenever I
>    use one of the Type 1 fonts, I just get a big blank page from a one
>    line of text.  The fonts work well in all my other programs,
>    wordprocessors, etc, so that leads me to believe all the fonts are
>    installed correctly.  Open Office seems to be the only program that
>    doesn't like the Type 1 fonts.  Even StarOffice 5.2 can use them ok.

I have installed a load of Type 1 fonts and OO 1.00 has no problems in displaying or printing them at any size. I'm using 7.3, but this shouldn't make any difference, should it?

Terence