Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 8420
problem with font
Last modified: 2003-09-08 16:53:51 UTC
interactive installer don't draw font and after no-interactive installation OO have the same problem know anybody where is problem? snapshots and setup.log are here http://yeti.morpheus.cz/tmp/oo_e1/ my conf: SuSE 7.3, kernel 2.4.10, glibc 2.2.4, KDE 2.2.2, XFree86 4.1.0
Created attachment 3200 [details] install window
Created attachment 3201 [details] OO window
*** Issue 8421 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 8419 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Created attachment 3202 [details] setup log
Herbert, I know that you are very experienced with Linux (and font problems). I have never seen this problem but maybe you have an idea?
HDU->PL: looks like no fonts where found anywhere HDU->karelbarel: does it woek better when you copy a few truetype fonts into $OOHOME/share/fonts/truetype? What is the font path on this system? "xset q" should tell it.
I am experiancing the same problem, Just built from scratch and my xset q reports the following for fonts: Font Path: /usr/kde/3/share/fonts/override,/home/bartof/.kde3/share/fonts/override,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/home/bartof/.kde3/share/fonts,/usr/kde/3/share/fonts Font cache: hi-mark (KB): 1024 low-mark (KB): 768 balance (%): 70
HDU->PL: can you help to tell which fonts where found if any?
pl->hdu: update psprint/inc/psprint/fontmanager.hxx and psprint/source/fontmanager/fontmanager.cxx in psprint to toplevel and compile with debug; every font file found by psprint will be output. Of course that does not explain why not even an X font was used
xset output /opt/kde2/share/fonts/override,/home/yeti/.kde2/share/fonts/override,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID,/home/yeti/.kde2/share/fonts,/opt/kde2/share/fonts ls -R of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts I added to attachment I've installed freetype2-2.0.4-52, freetype-1.3.1-314, ttmkfdir-noversion-232, intlfonts-ttf-1.2-127 and (fonts from) xf86-4.1.0-63. copy a few truetype fonts... - not solving
Created attachment 3218 [details] Additional Comments:
btw font inside opened document is fine, see snapshot
Created attachment 3219 [details] font inside document
Created attachment 3220 [details] font inside document
I try install version 643, no problem!
I just tried running Openoffice on a remote system using X forwarding, The same issue existed, even though it worked fine on the same machine locally. It appears to be an issue with KDE 3 compiled under GCC 3.2 I can gather more information about both systems if so desired.
OOo tries to open "Andale Sans UI" font and falls back to other fonts when it doesn't find it. It looks like a fallback font like Helvetica is advertized by the X server but the font cannot be opened or displayed in the requested pixel size. On OOo643 the font fallback mechanism was changed so this explains why it works now locally.
Needs to be recreated...
Created attachment 4491 [details] Screen Shot of Fonts after install on RH 8.0
Fonts on installation and application menus are hard to read. This problem exists in Gnome and KDE 3 from a standard RH 8.0 Install. I wanted to upgrade to 1.0.2 because I had seen how great it worked at home on a Win Machine, and wanted to have it on my RH machine. Installation instructions do not help work around this issue if the font server is part of the problem. I have had the same problem since Star Office 5.2, Open Office 1.0, 1.0.1, and 1.0.2. Fonts inside the documents work, basicly.
cslibby, you're describing a different problem, I think. I'm seeing that, too, so I've opened up a separate issue for it, issue 14604.
It seems the original problem here has been solved especially by issue 15363, issue 12705 and issue 14054. Closing.
HDU->US: please verify and close.
us->karelbarel: reminds me on issue 15743. Could you pls. verify and comment on a OOo 1.1 RC3 or newer. Thx.
issue should be fixed. Submitter pls. verify in a current OOo release. Setting to WFM.
Sorry, I can't because at this time I'm running on SuSE 8.2 (included OO 1.0.2 working fine).