On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 23:40, Martin Kretzschmar wrote: > This case, Albany vs. Helvetica is, well, pathologic. Albany is the name > of StarOffice's metrically compatible replacement font for Arial (and > Helvetica). Thus it's first in lots of replacement lists (VCL.xcu). > Maybe we can patch these lists to put Albany at the end (as its > non-free/not the Albany that debian users have installed etc.)
It's not a problem with Albany. It's a problem that (at a guess) there is nothing at all in the default substitution list that matches. Helvetica is often only available as a bitmap font, which is not recognized by the OOo+fontconfig patch. Chris