On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:11:39 +0100 Chris Halls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 04:18, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 19:24, Johannes Graumann wrote: > > > Thanks for the hint! Can you believe it took me the WHOLE DAY to > > > figure this out: 'dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig'? > > Johannes, why did you need that explicitly? Chris, I really don't know. I tried so many things I nearly went crazy and this last thing is what made fonts pop up in the respective OO dialog. Here's a bit of my log: 1) get http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/arabeyes/ae_fonts1_ttf_1.0.tar.bz2 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/arabeyes/kacst_fonts_1.5.tar.bz2 2) mv to /usr/share/fonts/truetype 3) tar xjf 4) chown -R root:root 5) chmod -R 755 6) dpkg-reconfigure x-ttcidfont-conf 7) edit /etc/X11/XF86config-4: add: FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID" FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" 8) edit/etc/X11/fs config: add to 'catalogue': /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID/,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfon t-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/ 9) edit /etc/fonts/local.conf: add: <dir>/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType</dir> just after the <fontconfig> line. 10) ALL ELSE PROBABLY BULLSHIT!: dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig I would greatly appreciate if you'd let me know what combination of commands gave me what I needed. > > Yes. Debian is *big*, and obscure stuff that non-Developers > > don't have a regular occasion to use aren't well documented. > > Yup, although I thought the fontconfig integration was documented for > OOo in the README.Debian. > > Missing fonts on upgrade to 1.1.0 > --------------------------------- > As part of the integration of Ximian's work, openoffice now > uses fontconfig to determine the installed fonts on your > system. Fonts that were installed using the 'spadmin' tool in > a non-standard directory are no longer supported. You should > move those fonts to a directory that fontconfig knows about, > such as~/.fonts or /usr/local/share/fonts. The same applies > if you made use of special paths with SAL_FONTPATH_PRIVATE. > > > Johannes, did you see this at all? Did you look at README.Debian? > I'm wondering how we can improve this for others trying to do the same > thing. I wonder if you missed this because it talks about upgrading > to 1.1.0. Yes, but that doesn't necessary mean I understood it ;0) I read and read this paragraph as: "put your fonts into /usr/local/share/fonts/<font_type> and fontconfig (and thereby OO) will know them. That's what I did (see log above) - and man, did I have some trouble! Your proposed change in wording doesn't really differ in this respect and would probably not helped me any more ... Joh > Judging by the number of confused people we're getting, it might help > to split this into two sections - one that talks about getting fonts > to work with OOo & fontconfig, and the other that mentions missing > fonts on upgrade. Here's a draft, what do you think? > > > Adding extra fonts > ------------------ > As part of the integration of Ximian's work, Debian openoffice uses > fontconfig to find the installed fonts on your system. > > You should make sure that fontconfig knows about your fonts. Use > 'fc-list | sort' to get a list of all fonts known to fontconfig. If > they are not available via fontconfig, OOo will not see them either > and you need to check your fontconfig configuration first. > > Missing fonts on upgrade to 1.1.0 > --------------------------------- > Fonts that were installed using the 'spadmin' tool in a non-standard > directory are no longer supported. You should move those fonts to a > directory that fontconfig knows about, such as ~/.fonts or > /usr/local/share/fonts. The same applies if you made use of special > paths with SAL_FONTPATH_PRIVATE. See the section 'Adding extra fonts' > > for more information. > > > > Chris > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
