Ugly fonts w/StarOffice 5.2
Hi there, I'm new to SuSE and coming from both RedHat and Debian. Remembering when I tryed SuSE 7.0 DEMO, I so decide to switch to SuSE 7.3 Pro. Good choice excepted for one extremely important thing: I can't use the "built in" StarOffice 5.2 for my everyday work! Fonts [and so all about my 400 .sdw docs] are unreadable [They are when I switch to "online view"]. I think it is X or Ghostscript the guilty and maybe it is a problem concerning scalability and printability of fonts with StarOffice. SuSE support said this problem is out of the scope of the 90-d support and simply tell me to do"something" with KFontInstall... So could anyone please help me about this? Many thanks and sorry for my bad english -- ######################### CORNELY Nicolas - BELGIUM #########################
CORNELY Nicolas wrote:
Hi there,
I'm new to SuSE and coming from both RedHat and Debian. Remembering when I tryed SuSE 7.0 DEMO, I so decide to switch to SuSE 7.3 Pro. Good choice excepted for one extremely important thing: I can't use the "built in" StarOffice 5.2 for my everyday work! Fonts [and so all about my 400 .sdw docs] are unreadable [They are when I switch to "online view"]. I think it is X or Ghostscript the guilty and maybe it is a problem concerning scalability and printability of fonts with StarOffice. SuSE support said this problem is out of the scope of the 90-d support and simply tell me to do"something" with KFontInstall... So could anyone please help me about this?
Many thanks and sorry for my bad english
What I would do is download Openoffice, which natively supports truetype fonts. You'll find it at www.openoffice.org. It is possible to improve fonts in 5.2, but it is hard work, and not as good as what you get with Openoffice (the 6.0 release of Staroffice is going to be based on it). fxf -- _______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux
On Sunday 17 February 2002 03:06 pm, CORNELY Nicolas wrote:
I'm new to SuSE and coming from both RedHat and Debian. Remembering when I tryed SuSE 7.0 DEMO, I so decide to switch to SuSE 7.3 Pro. Good choice excepted for one extremely important thing: I can't use the "built in" StarOffice 5.2 for my everyday work! Fonts [and so all about my 400 .sdw docs] are unreadable [They are when I switch to "online view"]. I think it
I don't know if this will fix your problem, probably not, but it's a good idea to do anyway. Run fetchmsttfonts and press "q" when you get to the license agreement to exit the less pager. -- Machine-Independent, adj.: Does not run on any existing machine.
Hello, I saw this exact problem when I first installed SuSE 7.3. Lived with it for a while until I noticed from looking at /var/log/SFree86.0.log quite a few font paths were not being loaded. Installing the missing fonts seems to have solved my problem. Hope this helps. Terry On Sunday 17 February 2002 02:06 pm, you wrote:
Hi there,
I'm new to SuSE and coming from both RedHat and Debian. Remembering when I tryed SuSE 7.0 DEMO, I so decide to switch to SuSE 7.3 Pro. Good choice excepted for one extremely important thing: I can't use the "built in" StarOffice 5.2 for my everyday work! Fonts [and so all about my 400 .sdw docs] are unreadable [They are when I switch to "online view"]. I think it is X or Ghostscript the guilty and maybe it is a problem concerning scalability and printability of fonts with StarOffice. SuSE support said this problem is out of the scope of the 90-d support and simply tell me to do"something" with KFontInstall... So could anyone please help me about this?
Many thanks and sorry for my bad english
Cornely:
Please see the SuSE support database article at:
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_helvetica.html
Also, these two archived emails about fonts in StarOffice
might help.
Chris Shaker
cjshaker@shaker-net.com
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Star Office on 7.3 won't display fonts correctly. They are all jumbled up on the screen, but they print fine. I figure it has something to do with the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, but I don't know exactly how to change it. Has anyone else had this problem with StarOffice 5.2?
You can use kfontinst to enable TT fonts in SO5.2, at least the standard
fonts (e.g. Arial) work well, some others don't.
Use fetchmsttfonts to download MS standard TT fonts.
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From: leisener@gmx.de (the wild one)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Adding fonts to Star Office
Date: 14 Aug 2001 08:29:05 -0700
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Kathrin und Simon Oplatka Wenger wrote:
Hi, you can. They must be integrated in X before (there is a HOWTO on that). StarOffice gives a guide to the rest. (Can't find it just now, try at Sun's database.) Simon
Its a pity but i can't find such a howto... Can you send it per Mail to me, or tell me the name of it? Or just post it here?
Thanx!
Norbert
I use Kde and therefore you can go:
K->Suse->System->Konfiguration->kfontinst
Read the readme to the program and do it before installing any fonts!
gotchas for me:
-add the
FontPath "unix/:7100"
line to the /etc/X11/XF86Config
-for encoding use the microsoft-cp1252 encoding
took me three days the first time with no result...
gave it another try a week ago, took me about an hour to set it up
under 7.2
Martin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "CORNELY Nicolas"
Hi there,
I'm new to SuSE and coming from both RedHat and Debian. Remembering when I tryed SuSE 7.0 DEMO, I so decide to switch to SuSE 7.3 Pro. Good choice excepted for one extremely important thing: I can't use the "built in" StarOffice 5.2 for my everyday work! Fonts [and so all about my 400 .sdw docs] are unreadable [They are when I switch to "online view"]. I think it is X or Ghostscript the guilty and maybe it is a problem concerning scalability and printability of fonts with StarOffice. SuSE support said this problem is out of the scope of the 90-d support and simply tell me to do"something" with KFontInstall... So could anyone please help me about this?
Many thanks and sorry for my bad english
-- ######################### CORNELY Nicolas - BELGIUM #########################
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participants (5)
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Christopher John Shaker -
CORNELY Nicolas -
FX Fraipont -
Joshua Lee -
Terry Eck