Chris, Thanks for the fast and informative reply. I hadn't known that OpenOffice puts a printer icon next to fonts that it won't display on-screen. That explains a lot. The short version of my reply is that I wasn't having the problem I thought I was having, but I now have one lingering issue (see below).
I did some more thinking and realized that what I thought was a problem was really not a problem. On my system running Debian stable, there must have been some aliases set up that mapped Palatino to Palladio, and the same for the rest of the gsfonts fonts. On the stable system, OpenOffice (from the OpenOffice.org tarball) saw those aliases and told me that all those fonts were available. On the unstable system with OpenOffice from the Debian package, Palatino and friends were listed only as printer fonts, but URW Palladio and the rest did show up under their own names. So, the fonts weren't really missing after all. Now my lingering problem. Paladio only shows up in italics in OpenOffice on my unstable system. This problem is mirrored in xfontsel, where Paladio is the only font which _doesn't_ start out in italics version when you first select its family name. Other applications like qtconfig (which I presume uses fontconfig) show Palladio correctly. Hmm... I guess I have to shrug my shoulders about that one. It sure would be nice to have only one font selection system that was always predictable. Scott Thatcher -- Assistant Professor of Mathematics Truman State University [EMAIL PROTECTED]
