Issue 1348 - Failed installation with true type fonts
Summary: Failed installation with true type fonts
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 633
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: philipp.lohmann
QA Contact: issues@www
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Reported: 2001-07-28 16:08 UTC by issues@www
Modified: 2003-12-06 14:52 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description issues@www 2001-07-28 16:08:21 UTC 
I have RedHat 7.1 SMP.  I noticed that after importing the Windows font into
Linux and adding it to the xfs server (using chkfontpath utility), OpenOffice
wont install.  Running setup will cause two windows to open and stop there.  If
I marked the true type font (putting # in the /etc/X11/fs/config file) and
restart the xfs service, installing is possible.

Also, after installation then I put back the true type fonts (unmarking the
line), the OpenOffice will run but all the menu text is missing.

Thanks,
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2001-07-30 10:55:32 UTC 
Hi Philipp,

any ideas about this?
Comment 2 philipp.lohmann 2001-08-07 10:35:12 UTC 
Contacted submitter with the following. Never got response, so i 
suppose the problem is solved.

i suspect the problem is in the xfs server. The font list that is 
tried for the UI font looks like this (ordered to descending 
priority):

Andale Sans UI
Tahoma
Arial Unicode MS
Interface User
Geneva
WarpSans
Dialog
Swiss
Lucida
Helvetica
Charcoal
Chicago
Arial
MS Sans Serif
Helv
Times
Times New Roman
Interface System

If for instance in xfontsel you can select but not display Tahoma, 
then the xfs is the culprit.

Additionally you can try to let OpenOffice.org handle the TrueType 
fonts 
directly. Simply edit the soffice script <office installation 
path>/program/soffice and append the directory containing your 
TrueType 
fonts to the SAL_FONTPATH_PRIVATE separated by ';'.
Comment 3 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 09:44:29 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for
details. First step in IssueZilla is unfortunately to set them to verified.
Comment 4 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 10:19:33 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for details.