Hi: I have Suse 7.3 and Open Office 641. I have stripped most fonts and font paths out of the system and XF86Config, and have installed only the fixed width and cursor fonts demanded by the X server. In addition I have installed truetype fonts for most purposes. These fonts work very well in almost all applications. However, I need a few Type1 fonts installed. So I began installing some into my Type1 dir (I had deleted everything from my font paths, and am hand replacing only those fonts that I want). I installed the IBM Courier Type1 fonts (just copied the .pfa and .afms from the original X font installation) and ran type1inst. I also installed the Utopia fonts. See the end of the message for outputs of xlsfonts and copies of my fonts.scale and fonts.dir. In Open Office, when I select either the Courier or Utopia fonts, the result is that the cursor becomes very large, sometimes the whole height of the page. When I type no characters display, but the cursor moves. The Courier font works fine in KDE apps., but there is a slight problem with the Utopia font in KDE apps. See another post titled "KDE shows regular font as italic." There is no way it seems to select an encoding in Open Office, and I suspect this may be a problem. This is because in KDE, the font dialogs don't show the Type 1 fonts, unless I select the iso8859-1 encoding. The fonts that come with Open Office are adobe-fontspecific encoding. I tried putting a line with this encoding in the fonts.scale and fonts.dir, rehash, etc. But OO is still unable to display the font. I suspect either a font metric problem or an encoding problem. How to re-encode type 1 fonts? I haven't tried to recalculate the .afms with one of the utilities available. I will get to that later. Any ideas? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts.my/Type1 # cat fonts.dir 8 UTRG____.pfa -adobe-utopia-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 UTI_____.pfa -adobe-utopia-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 UTBI____.pfa -adobe-utopia-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 UTB_____.pfa -adobe-utopia-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 cour.pfa -ibm-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 courb.pfa -ibm-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 courbi.pfa -ibm-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 couri.pfa -ibm-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 The fonts.dir and fonts.scale are the same. Here is the xlsfonts output: ~ $ xlsfonts|grep utopia -adobe-utopia-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -adobe-utopia-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -adobe-utopia-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -adobe-utopia-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -- -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov