I have installed those packages and the problem is solved. I had some problems with the mstt fonts package (proxy issues) so it was installed later than the others and the problem did not resolve until this package was on, so it may be that I needed this package in particular.
Thank you to everyone who has helped with this. It was my first experience looking to the community of Debian users for support and I have to say it was a very positive thing. Kind regards, Bernard Lineham On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 12:32 -0500, H. S. wrote: > Apparently, _Matt Price_, on 18/11/04 18:05,typed: > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:37:08AM +1100, Bernard Lineham wrote: > > > >>Many thanks for your reply. I did not have the theasaurus or the help > >>package installed so I added those but unfortunately it did not correct > >>the problem. > >>On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 14:04 -0500, H. S. wrote: > >> > >>>Bernard Lineham wrote: > >>> > >>>>I'm running a recently installed up to date Sid distribution. I am > >>>>having a problem where text in OpenOffice Writer that is marked as bold > >>>>is still showing up as plain text. Can anyone advise how I might solve > >>>>this problem? > >> > > > > this may be a problem with the rendering of text onscreen. In > > particular I notice that Bitstream Vera Charter (which was the default > > font when I first installed OOo) Bold does not look any different > > ONSCREEN than the non-bold. Try changing the font, e.g. to Times, see > > if that helps. If that solves your problem, then you just need to > > switch your default font to something that displays properly. If you > > really like charter and want to keep it as your default, than that > > demands a proper fix I unfortunatley am not competent to tell you how > > to arrange. > > > > g'luck! > > matt > > > Actually, yes. Since when I was having a problem in seeing bold fonts > onscreen, the exported PDF files looked okay with bold fonts printed nicely. > > I guess the problem would be in the fonts rendering on the system. I > have these packages installed: > $> dpkg -l xfs* *ftt* mstt* | grep ^ii > ii xfs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X font server > ii xfs-xtt 1.4.1.xf430-5 X-TrueType font server > ii xfstt 1.6-2 X Font Server for TrueType fonts > ii fttools 1.2-13.1 FreeType font utilities. > ii msttcorefonts 1.1.12 Installer for Microsoft TrueType core > fonts > > To the OP, try installing the last package above (or others too if > needed), and see if that makes a difference. Sorry I can't be more > specific(its been too long since I encountered this problem), but I do > recall that the problem went away when I installed one or two additional > packages. You have already tried openoffice related ones, try giving the > above ones a shot. > > GL, > ->HS > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
