Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 8027
fonts sustitution in Tool/Options don't work for Chinese (or double byte font)
Last modified: 2004-10-05 09:59:18 UTC
If I type to sustitution English font to Chinese font, openoffice change the font as expected, but the font are overlapping each other.
Carfield, thank you for using and supporting OOo. Consider reviewing issue 4726.
SBA-> Carfield: Concerning Asian fonts, a lot of improvements have been made since OOo 1.0.0. Please verify your findings in a newer version of OOo(currently 1.1 RC4 is available) and comment. Naming your Linux distribution and the affected fonts (in case this still occurs) would be helpful too. Thank you. Reassigned to Ulf.
still have this problem for 1.1RC4 in my machine.
You probably checked "Screen". Select "Always" instead. Additionaly pls. attach the font or at least say what you are trying to replace. Thx. Furthermore it doesn't make sense (to me) to replace a western font with a chinese one. What are you expecting? Or what are you trying to do? Writing chinese? I strongly recommend the following procedure to write chinese text: select your favorite chinese fonts for text documents in "Tools/Options/Text Document/Basic Fonts (Asian)" Inside the wordprocessor toggle your IME and write chinese.
Created attachment 0
>You probably checked "Screen". Select "Always" instead. You refer to bugzilla or openoffice? >Additionaly pls. attach the font or at least say what you are trying to replace. Thx. Attached >Furthermore it doesn't make sense (to me) to replace a western font with a chinese one. What are you expecting? Or what are you trying to do? Writing chinese? I don't need to write Chinese, and OO support Chinese IME very good. However, it don't do really nice on viewing Chinese document, it will allow the space for one English character to one Chinese character if wrong font specificed, i.e. All document from MS office with Chinese font. However Chinese Character is wider than English character, which make the fonts overlapping each other. May be I attached 2 document, 1 is have Linux Chinese font specific and 1 have English Chinese font specific. Both are viewable in MS office but in Openoffice at Linux only the first one view probably. I don't sure if Openoffice at Windows do the same work in MS office, as I guess the font handling is depend on the Windows system, which MS windows probably provide better support on i18n than X-Windows + icewm. So I think it is more a request than bug... Just plain guessing.
Created attachment 9797 [details] Document with Linux Chinese font specificed
Created attachment 9798 [details] Only windows openable document
The Chinese font I am using http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/mandrake/9.0/x86_64/Mandrake/RPMS/fonts-ttf-big5-1.0-16mdk.noarch.html
You refer to bugzilla or openoffice? OpenOffice. Thanks for the input! Could you pls. additionaly attach a screenshot. Thx.
Created attachment 9801 [details] The wrong one can't show Chinese text for this document, but some document can show but overlapping, in the mean time I don't have such document on hand
Please try using the latest OpenOffice 1.1 Final , you can download it from www.openoffice.org many bug fixes and enhancements since your version and 1.1 Final . If the problem still happend in 1.1 please report back
OpenOffice.org-1.1-0.rc4.2mdk still have same problem
So.... any update? I just want an option that can let me replace font of all text in the document... should be straight forward, right?
Hi I do not understand the problem! I can not see bigger differences between document opened in WORD and same opened in 1.1.0 German version WIN XP: 645m19(Build8693). Carfield , can you please add a clear, simple description of your problem, showing it _leter_for_letter_ in the document? f I will not see any further action as votes, attachments or confirmations, I will have to close this isIsue 2004-03-31 as WFM. CU Rainer
Win32 Edition of openoffice don't have this problem, it is only happen at Linux. The problem is pretty clearn describe at http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/9801/oowriter.jpg Basically, a typical Word document will specific the document using fonts like "Arial" or "Times new Roman", in Windows platform it can show Chinese Character even if you use font don't contain Chinese Character. When I try to open these document at Linux, OpenOffice is still using these font to display the document. However, Linux can't show Chinese character if the font don't contain Chinese character. I will think that is normal as the platform is difference as Windows internationalization preformance always perform better. However I wist there is an simple option which can let me specific the font of WHOLE document, like every page in a slide at ooimpress, or every text box in a word document at oowrite.
I opened "letter_wrong_font.doc" with OOo 1.1.0 SuSE LINUX 9.0 and now can confirm the "font are overlapping each other"- problem. My LINUX is a small "special edition", I use it without any further adjustment (spadmin ...). The question for me is: OOo or LINUX problem? I can not decide that. Might be someone can try to one the document with with KOFFICE or similar and report his experiences? Rainer
JA: the second document can be loaded and it looks nicely within the src680m54 developer snapshot. Maybe it was one of the OOo 2.0 interoperability features which fixed this issue... JA->US: I didn't check the issue using the Mandrake fonts but tested on JDS and this looked like the screenshot...Maybe it's worth to have a look at the font...
I suspect that the problem is the default font if font given in the document not found / not specificed. If the font is used as default font is not found, then it will have display problem. The default font in Mandrake package is [PiuMing] (I don't really remember the spelling, but this should be the one set in openoffice default). This may be problem from mandrake which they should replace that font to Chinese font shipped with the package. However as I end user I can't do anything, and I don't know how to modify the source package to replace that font. I will love to see if the font can be setted in config file. Possible?
I can not confirm JA's findings. Both documents display fine on my "fedora core 2" and "jds" Linux boxes with src680_m54.8806 developer snapshot. Both Linux systems have the fonts installed (may be in a more curent release). Hence I consider this issue as resolved.
Closing as fixed. BTW. substituting the fonts in Tools/Options/Fonts also works flawless for me.
Well... it still have problem to me... but I understand that I can't request much for free software :-( However, just refer to comment of 2004/02/26 18:09:27 -0700: I just want an option that can let me replace font of all text in the document... should be straight forward, right? [Ctrl]+[A] don't work because all text box and predefine header and footer box won't included. Even worst, [Ctrl]+[A] basically don't work in ooimpress.