Does star office and open office use the fonts from kde3? if so can i take the fonts from the kde2 and use them in kde3? I installed star office 5.2 in suse 8.1 and i don't get the same fonts and had used before and it is messing up my documents. *--------------------------------* | Chris Large clarge@macn.bc.ca | | http://clarge.bc.ca | *--------------------------------*
On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 22:15, Chris Large wrote:
Does star office and open office use the fonts from kde3? if so can i take the fonts from the kde2 and use them in kde3? I installed star office 5.2 in suse 8.1 and i don't get the same fonts and had used before and it is messing up my documents.
*--------------------------------* | Chris Large clarge@macn.bc.ca | | http://clarge.bc.ca | *--------------------------------*
Since you have SuSE 8.1, try the version of OpenOffice that is included with SuSE. Assuming that your fonts are located in a file such as /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype and that the KDE Control Centre - Font Installer has been set to that file, then OpenOffice or StarOffice6 should be able to find and use the fonts. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01
Ralph Sanford wrote:
On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 22:15, Chris Large wrote:
Does star office and open office use the fonts from kde3? if so can i take the fonts from the kde2 and use them in kde3? I installed star office 5.2 in suse 8.1 and i don't get the same fonts and had used before and it is messing up my documents.
*--------------------------------* | Chris Large clarge@macn.bc.ca | | http://clarge.bc.ca | *--------------------------------*
Since you have SuSE 8.1, try the version of OpenOffice that is included with SuSE. Assuming that your fonts are located in a file such as /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype and that the KDE Control Centre - Font Installer has been set to that file, then OpenOffice or StarOffice6 should be able to find and use the fonts.
Don't forget that truetype fonts provided with your MS Windows (if you have it) can be added to your ......../fonts/truetype directory and Open Office will use them nicely. Have a look at the FONT-HOWTO document to see how to set up new fonts. Regards Ken Hough
On Sunday 29 December 2002 18:17, Ken Hough wrote:
Ralph Sanford wrote:
On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 22:15, Chris Large wrote:
Does star office and open office use the fonts from kde3? if so can i take the fonts from the kde2 and use them in kde3? I installed star office 5.2 in suse 8.1 and i don't get the same fonts and had used before and it is messing up my documents.
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| Chris Large clarge@macn.bc.ca | | http://clarge.bc.ca |
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Since you have SuSE 8.1, try the version of OpenOffice that is included with SuSE. Assuming that your fonts are located in a file such as /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype and that the KDE Control Centre - Font Installer has been set to that file, then OpenOffice or StarOffice6 should be able to find and use the fonts.
Don't forget that truetype fonts provided with your MS Windows (if you have it) can be added to your ......../fonts/truetype directory and Open Office will use them nicely. Have a look at the FONT-HOWTO document to see how to set up new fonts.
Regards
Ken Hough
Or even easier, if you are using kde 303 as in 8.1, go to K>controlcenter>system>font manager as root and it walks you through it. Hint: take a copy of the /w$/system/font directory over to your Linuks partition first. Steve.
Chris Large wrote:
Does star office and open office use the fonts from kde3? if so can i take the fonts from the kde2 and use them in kde3? I installed star office 5.2 in suse 8.1 and i don't get the same fonts and had used before and it is messing up my documents.
StarOffice 5.2 fonts are installed only with difficulty. There was/is a utility: Preferences->System->Font Installer, that helps, though, as I recall, it's best run as root. StarOffice 6.0 and (I presume) OpenOffice have no difficulty dealing with fonts. JDL
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