On Wednesday 16 April 2008 08.55:22, John D Lamb wrote:

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 21:40 +0200, Daniel Bauer wrote:

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Today I wanted to use OpenOffice again after a while and now some of my special Type1 fonts (bought at adobe) don't work in OpenOffice anymore, they seem to be substituted by just a simple standard font.

I think you’ve tried everything. Is there any chance that you have OpenType fonts rather than PostScript fonts?

Hi John, Well... Konqueror tells me that the according .afm files contain metric info about a PostScript font, while the .pfb files are Type1 fonts. I don't think the problem lies in the font files, because they worked before in OOo - for a long time, just not anymore... Any other ideas, somebody? Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com erotic art photos: http://www.bauer-nudes.com/en/linux.html Madagascar special: http://www.fotograf-basel.ch/madagascar/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 16 April 2008 14.53:51, Petr Mladek wrote:

On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Daniel Bauer wrote:

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Hello all,

Today I wanted to use OpenOffice again after a while and now some of my special Type1 fonts (bought at adobe) don't work in OpenOffice anymore, they seem to be substituted by just a simple standard font.

I googled, tried several things: - spadmin: tried as user and as root, using just links or with coping the files, no success - installed some fonts in HOME/.fonts using KControl, no success - checked that there is no font substitution checked in OOo's Menu "Options"... and in spadmin's printer setup... - uninstalled the Suse's OpenOffice, downloaded and installed the rpm from the openoffice site, no success - uninstalled this again and installed the latest version from Suse Build service via Yast, no success...

Konqueror (and KControl, too) show the affected fonts correctly, just OpenOffice doesn't.

The problem affects just a few fonts - the ones I need... Of course I had several updates on my system as I keep it up-to-date and I don't know, since when this problem occurs, could be a day or three weeks?

Any ideas? Thanks.

You could try to stop OOo and remove $HOME/.ooo-2.0/user/psprint/pspfontcache. I am afraid that it won't help but it is worth try.

Also could you please report it into bugzilla.novell.com, so we could track it there down with all the relevant people in CC?

Hi Petr, I tried the suggested, but as you suspected it didn't help. So I'll go and search for my novell-bug-username to report... :-) kind regards Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com erotic art photos: http://www.bauer-nudes.com/en/linux.html Madagascar special: http://www.fotograf-basel.ch/madagascar/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 18 April 2008 05.35:08, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:

Daniel Bauer wrote:

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Any ideas? Thanks.

You could try asking on the OpenOffice list by subscribing there first.

Email users-subscribe@openoffice.org

I subscribed there - not one single answer... :-( -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com erotic art photos: http://www.bauer-nudes.com/en/linux.html Madagascar special: http://www.fotograf-basel.ch/madagascar/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 18 April 2008 18.04:52, Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Daniel Bauer wrote:

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On Friday 18 April 2008 05.35:08, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:

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Daniel Bauer wrote:

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Any ideas? Thanks.

You could try asking on the OpenOffice list by subscribing there first.

Email users-subscribe@openoffice.org

I subscribed there - not one single answer... :-(

I opened up a PDF doc yesterday via acroread and the font is really unusual. It is supposed to be "times new roman", but instead it is a much more unusual font. (Still readable, but definitely not "times new roman". )

It looks good if I open the same doc from XP / acrobat reader.

I just tried to print it and the normal text printed fine, but the italics and bold sections have the weird font.

I also just opened up a very similar doc that was created in Dec. and it looks fine in Acroread.

I'm pretty lost at this point. I don't even know how to check what font is in use in a PDF doc.

FYI: Acroread 8.1.2 if it matters.

Greg --

Then I guess something has changed in the fonts handling in openSuse 10.3...??? I have the same error with fonts that I described in my absolutely new and "virgin" 10.3 on my new laptop, too. I filed a bug at bugzilla.novell, but under the title of OOo - and if I look it this way then this could address to the wrong people? So if somebody appropriate reads this: should I change or add something in my bug report? kind regards Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com erotic art photos: http://www.bauer-nudes.com/en/linux.html Madagascar special: http://www.fotograf-basel.ch/madagascar/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-04-18 at 12:04 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:

I'm pretty lost at this point. I don't even know how to check what font is in use in a PDF doc.

It is not so easy! File / document properties, slect fonts tab. It will show the list of fonts used. Or try the command line "pdffonts file.pdf" and will list that same list in a different format. However, there is no way to know which letter in the file uses what font. I have been forced, now and then, to create a document in OOo with a a (few) line(s) in just one font, export or convert to pdf, and run that command to check what fonts in OOo gets converted to what font in the PDF. To make things worse, the fonts used are not the same if you export directly to pdf or to ps and use ps2pdf later to convert. Sometimes you get the internal fonts, sometimes they are embedded. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFICPmatTMYHG2NR9URArGpAJ9D5W+RMpGmE2IATeDpBTXgE8VcGgCcCW45 wU4UsC0FtNeKrENMtiJrAVQ= =8UbL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

John R. Sowden wrote:

Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Friday 2008-04-18 at 12:04 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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I'm pretty lost at this point. I don't even know how to check what font is in use in a PDF doc.

It is not so easy!

File / document properties, slect fonts tab. It will show the list of fonts used. Or try the command line "pdffonts file.pdf" and will list that same list in a different format.

However, there is no way to know which letter in the file uses what font.

I have been forced, now and then, to create a document in OOo with a a (few) line(s) in just one font, export or convert to pdf, and run that command to check what fonts in OOo gets converted to what font in the PDF.

To make things worse, the fonts used are not the same if you export directly to pdf or to ps and use ps2pdf later to convert. Sometimes you get the internal fonts, sometimes they are embedded.

- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.

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iD8DBQFICPmatTMYHG2NR9URArGpAJ9D5W+RMpGmE2IATeDpBTXgE8VcGgCcCW45 wU4UsC0FtNeKrENMtiJrAVQ= =8UbL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- I experienced the same issue (fonts changed suddenly). I checked the messages and no one seemed to mention my conclusion. I traced it back to a language change. The language was changed to Czech. This happened more than once, on more than one computer, probably running Suse 10.1 or 10.3, or excuse me, possibly windows. Correcting the language to English (USA) solved the problem, although I did not track by computer, so I don't know if it reoccurred after the correction.

I am running either 2.3 or 2.4 OOo, depending on the computer.

Hope this sheds some light on the issue.

John

the more I thought about this, it is probably an OOo issue, although, if Ooo gets it location data from Suse, then it could be a Suse issue. Just a preemptive strike to those that might jump to the former John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org