>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Halls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi Michael!
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:09:34PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
>> I just upgraded my testing machine to unstable and installed
>> KDE3.0.3. All worked well except that openoffice no longer
>> shows a single character. That is there is no longer any
>> character in the menues, windows, etc.
>>
>> Did anyone else have such an effect? Yes, I know this is
>> pre-unstable, but it better does not happen once the packages
>> come up to sid. :-)
> Yours is the third such report I've seen today - something
> must've gone wrong with fonts somewhere. The person I spoke on
> on IRC found that he could get it to work by removing fonts from
> the font path until it started, then changing the user interface
> font a la README.gz. That makes OOo use the font you ask for
> instead of automatically looking for a font... and finding one
> that doesn't work properly.
> It would be good to find out which font is being picked on these
> problem machines. I can't reproduce it here.
Here's a bug report on the problem.
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2612
In summary, it seems that if you don't use freetype for X, it'll work,
but then you don't get true type fonts...
Good Luck
Marshal
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