Thanks to everybody who suggested stuff (Chris, Tim, Matt, Ben.... and Carl, you have my deepest sympathies). My setup at home was working much better, all along, so when I got in to the office this morning, I tried every suggestion in sight -- most of which I'd already tried -- and nothing helped. Basically, the fonts used by K for the window dressing and panels, etc. were ok. The fonts that were used inside applications (i.e., data/text areas) were ugly, and the fonts in OpenOffice were unbearable. On closer inspection, it appears that none of the fonts were properly accessed, it's just that the substitution was a little better for some of the other apps, but not OOo. Spadmin (the OOo config) didn't help, which is why I thought the problem must be K or X. xset fp refresh did nothing. Tinkering with the paths did nothing. Tinkering with permissions and ownership of font files did nothing. Don't ask about restarts... I rebooted several times yesterday, and I'm pretty sure that X gets restarted when you boot. So, I've spent this morning with my SuSE 8 CDs and YaST, and YOU and... The upshot is that X and KDE 3 are new again, and now not only OOo but all the other apps are accessing the fonts. Even the window dressing looks better -- or maybe I'm in a better mood. :-) Life is no longer a black pit of despair (although my boss is not exactly happy...). I looked in the start logs and saw no complaints that seemed to relate to X, and I don't know where else to look, so I have no clue what was messed up. I'm hoping that nothing breaks until my 8.1 delivery arrives... with a whole new set of /p/r/o/b/l/e/m/s/ er... I mean.... opportunities. Thanks to all, /kevin On Thursday 03 October 2002 08:00, Matt T. wrote:
Hi Kevin,
you do not make this really clear:
Do you have the fonts not correctly in OpenOffice only, or in the kde Applications?
Do they show up correctly in kword, kwrite etc?
If they show up in kword, kwrite etc. correctly then obviously your font setup is ok, then have a look at OpenOffices font handling.
Otherwise do what Ben Rosenberg proposes in his answer, to make sure that Xserver isn't having issue's parseing the font lists in your truetype directory.