Issue 14413

Summary:

Redhat 8.0 installation fonts

Product:

General

Reporter:

magrawal <magrawal>

Component:

Assignee:

ulf.stroehler

Status:

CLOSED DUPLICATE

QA Contact:

issues@installation <issues>

Severity:

Trivial

Priority:

CC:

issues

Version:

OOo 1.1 Beta

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Linux, all

Issue Type:

DEFECT

Latest Confirmation in:

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Developer Difficulty:

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Attachments:

Description	Flags
The fonts in the stylist dialog and menu are messed up	none
Even the add printer dialog has font problems)	none

Description magrawal 2003-05-13 14:50:15 UTC

I installed OO 1.1 on Redhat 8.0 using GNOME, following the instructions for a 
network installation in the setup guides at OO.org to the letter.




The problem is that the fonts on the menus and other screens are messed up. I 
have attached some screenshots.

Comment 1 magrawal 2003-05-13 14:50:46 UTC

Created attachment 6184 [details]
The fonts in the stylist dialog and menu are messed up

Comment 2 magrawal 2003-05-13 14:51:28 UTC

Created attachment 6185 [details]
Even the add printer dialog has font problems)

Comment 3 Olaf Felka 2003-05-13 15:00:15 UTC

Hi Ulf,
I never have seen this on linux. Looks like a problem with the font
settings. Any idea?

Comment 4 ulf.stroehler 2003-06-19 14:47:19 UTC

This is a known issue and fixed in issue 15363.
The problem is the Mingti font from /usr/share/fonts/zh_TW which
contains glyphs for latin characters of doubtful quality. Mingti was
considered (from its name) as a suitable candidate to display
traditional chinese glyphs and thus listed as one item in the fonts
fallback list. Unfortunately on RH systems there was no font found in
the list prior to Mingti. Now this fontsubstitution has been changed
so that common Luxi fonts on Linux are found prior to Mingti.
Additionally OOo 1.1 will provide new nice looking Bitstream TrueType
fonts that will be used also for the GUI.
Stay tuned!

Workaround:
comment out /usr/share/fonts/zh_TW in /etc/X11/fs/config and restart
xfs (/etc/init.d/rc.d/xfs restart), if you don't rely on Traditional
Chinese fonts.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 15363 ***

Comment 5 ulf.stroehler 2004-07-16 21:31:19 UTC

Closing dupe.