Hi Herouth,
Here's how I did it:
0. Get out of Gnome, KDE, etc. Start X server and run twm window manager
1. as root, install the IBM bidi_oopern_office using rpm -ivh --nodeps
2. add /usr/lib/openoffice/program to the end of /etc/ld.so.conf
3. run ldconfig
4. run /usr/lib/openoffice/program/spadmin
5. click the install fonts button
6. use the file chooser to choose a directory that has Hebrew Unicode
fonts, such as /usr/local/jdk1.4.1/jre/lib/fonts
7. Select all of the (Lucida) fonts, Apply
8. exit spadmin, run /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice as nonpriveleged
user
9. Do the install Workstation option until the installation procedure
exits. Ignore .gnome/apps/OpenOffice directory write errors.
10. Set Hebrew keyboard as described in www.pango.org
11. run /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice
12. press Right Alt-Shift to switch to Hebrew keyboard mapping.
13. Enjoy Select the Lucida Sans font in the Font pull down
14. Type - you should see Hebrew characters. Viewing and input and
printing work tollerable well. Heck breaks loose when you do select, cut
and paste however.
(I hope I didn't forget the libstdc++.so. If so, you can find it in the
OpenOfice.org distribution.)
Regards,
- yba
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sorry if this has already been discussed, but I couldn't find it in the archives.
>
> I installed the OO Bidi from the RPM's in IGLU's archives. The problem is that
> the Hebrew fonts do not appear in the font menu.
>
> Now, in the old StarOffice, if I wanted to add fonts for its use, I needed to
> convert TrueType fonts to PS, and there was a utility - spadmin - which allowed
> me to install those fonts into StarOffice, and they can then be used for
> printing, and appeared in the menu.
>
> The doc that comes with OO Bidi states that the same utility exists for it. I
> tried to run it - but it complained of missing libraries. I temporary linked all
> those libraries from /usr/lib, then it stopped complaining, but still didn't work.
>
> The doc also says that OpenOffice should recognize the TrueType fonts installed
> on the X server. Or at least that's how I understood it. Well, it doesn't.
>
> Well, has anybody had any success in installing Hebrew fonts for OpenOffice and
> can relate the procedure for doing so? Or for making spadmin work?
>
> By the way, those HTML doc files - they are made for Windows, not for Linux.
> They have IMG tags with backslashes. Ugh.
>
> Herouth
>
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