On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 03:36, Kevin Mark wrote: 03:36? This didn't reach me before 04:30...
> This is the kind of things that hurt Linux for the desktop. When average users, > trying to > get 'WORK' done, do a 'routine' upgrade and have a wrench thrown into a seemingly > simple Not that simple. Some physics paper with lots of greek letters and embedded graphis and functions and whatnot. Admittedly, I didn't belive that Openoffice was a good means to get it done in the first place. But I don't know any better means, either. > My idea is to downgrade OO. And Won't this possibly break even more? I lack knowledge of apt-pinning &c, and there's no time for learning now. My only means would be to replace the current sources.list entry with one that provides v1.0 -- risky or OK? > hopefully this will 'pull-in' the fonts that were messed up. Also, print > the files to 'pdf' first. Output to PDF is an OO 1.1 feature.Though this may be necessary either way: my postscript printer messes up some of the greek and symbol characters. So she may need to provide a pdf file as well: "Look, this is what I've done, but I couldn't get it printed properly" > affected by 'upgrades'. I'd also check /var/cache/apt/archives for any > xfonts that are not installed. I think you can use dpkg --get-selections > to see what is missing. huh? I don't even understand what this means. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
