David: Going to pass the buck here a bit. Check out the suse_linux_ja mail list. There's a guy there that has your problem with OpenOffice1.1.0 Orc4. He says he can use any font on OpenOffice1.0.3, and Mincho Gothic (only) on OpenOffice1.1.0. Here's an update on my side: I'm running OpenOffice.org 1.0.2. I'm running a Japanese session, but it starts up with English menus. When I go to Japanese mode, and I insert Japanese, if the font is set to mincho, it displays just fine. Any other font, and they come out as boxes. The only thing 'weird' about it is when I hit shift+space to go to Japanese mode, the hiragana "a" symbol that denotes I'm in Japanese mode shows up as a box. Everything else is normal, for the most part. Paul