On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:54:19PM -0800, David wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:12:13AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > > Hello, > > > > today, I did the usual apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on my > > girfriend's machine. > > In the process, the Openoffice backport was upgraded from 1.0.xx to > > 1.1.xx. This has severe side effects. > > > > In short: practically all the homework she has done over the christmas > > holidays (and has to submit tomorrow morning) has been messed up quite a > > bit. Going over it manually would take hours even if she was fresh and > > wide awake -- however, it's already early in the morning over here. > > > > As far as I can tell, it is related to fonts having magically > > disappeared. At any rate, she now has only five fonts available to chose > > Would enabling True Type fonts help? > > Try this link: > http://home.t-online.de/home/c.ehbrecht/WebWiki/TrueTypeFonts.html > I rember finding a *REALLY* good howto online. I don't think this is > it, but if I find it I'll follow up. > > I wish you the best of luck on this. Here's the the link: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TT-Debian.html#toc3
and also this looks good: www.linuxtransfer.com/h/installation_truetypefonts.pdf Even refers to using the fonts in OpenOffice. > > > from -- in effect the layout has been garbled. > > The symbol font she originally used (don't as which) is also gone. Now > > there's OpenSymbol available, but all the greek letters she has entered > > so far are merely blanks. > > > > I'm quite at a loss, and she's in tears. I have no clue what actually > > has happened other than the now missing fonts. Nor do I know what > > actually has been changed in this painsome upgrade, or how I could find > > out, or undo it. > > > > If anybody has a clue what has happened, or even knows a fix, please > > tell me. Anything. Doesn't need to be nice, as long as we can print her > > stuff the way it was meant to look like. > > > > My own approach to the problem will be to install as many fonts as I can > > in the hope that things will be in order once the fonts she originally > > used are available again. However, I don't know where to get them other > > than by picking packages through aptitude. I think I installed > > everything that seemed appropriate for western europe, but I'll look > > again after this is sent. > > > > In the meantime, she'll start going over her files manually. > > > > She says the fonts she used were "Times" and "Symbol". > > IIRC, those were from Microsoft. Someday, I had a package that > > downloaded them. I don't even know which package that was, or why they > > now seem to be gone. > > > > Any help would be great. > > > > > > TIA, > > Schnobs > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
