OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 lost _all_ fonts

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wzzrd · Post by **wzzrd** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 9:12 am

That is _ALL_ fonts, not just the ones in the pull-down menu to choose from, but the ones that make up the menus themselves too! The only fonts I can see are the ones I type. The rest of the places where should have been text are eiter empty or just have some underscores.

I will post a screenshot as soon as I get home to make a screendump. I think this happend after I installed XFree 4.3.0 and DRI. The fonts are installed: other apps work perfectly. I tried re-emerging openoffice-bin too. Removed .openoffice and .sversionrc. Nothing helped... Screenshot will be here around 16:00 or 17:00 GMT. Has anyone got a clue how this can be solved already? Does it sound familiar to some of you?

Krisserferson · Post by **Krisserferson** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 9:21 am

It's usually a good thing to re-emerge xft and freetype after upgrading X.

wzzrd · Post by **wzzrd** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 8:02 pm

I re-emerged both xft and freetype, but to no avail. This is what OpenOffice.org Calc looks like at the moment:

Fester · Post by **Fester** » Sat Mar 08, 2003 2:53 am

Have you tried re-installing your fonts into OpenOffice using the spadmin utility? (On my system, located in /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.2/)

OpenOffice seems to use fonts installed from there in the UI if possible, not just in the fonts list.

dr_strange · Post by **dr_strange** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 4:07 pm

I have the same problem; neither reemerging freetype or Openoffice-bin, neither deleting my .openoffice directorz, nor assing fonts with spadmin helps.
What can be wrong?

wzzrd · Post by **wzzrd** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 4:57 pm

Remove the Tahoma fonts from /usr/share/fonts/truetype. My X doesn't seem to like this. Moving it to another subdir of /usr/share/fonts makes OOo ignore it, while X can still use it. Weird but true: OOo on XFree 4.2.0 didn't make a problem of this. Neither does OOo on XFree 4.3.0 make a problem of this exact same font on my desktop. On my laptop however it pukes over Tahoma. Oh well, don't plan to write my thesis in Tahoma anyway

Cyclone · Post by **Cyclone** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 9:44 pm

I had this same problem in several KDE apps and mozilla. Having re-emerged freetype, did you try: emerge fontconfig?

fudge · Post by **fudge** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 2:58 pm

Found an answer for this problem. See
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=44120

zhenlin · Post by **zhenlin** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 2:48 am

Change the font scaling:

Tools > Options > View > Play around with the textbox with the up/down buttons, say 110%. Alt-T should bring up the tools menu, the Options option is right at the bottom.

gravis · Post by **gravis** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 6:49 pm

Changing the scale mysteriously restore my font display. Using again 100% now works (wow, strange). Nevertheless, I've still problems with the preview window, for exemple, in the Presenter (no fonts).
In fact, it seems that if the font size is quite small, OpenOffice doesn't display (the preview window works if I resize it).

Any idea to solve definitly this problem ??

Z? · Post by Z? » Sun Apr 06, 2003 8:56 am

Near the end of /usr/bin/ooffice, there's a line that reads:

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export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreetype.so

Just comment it out, and everything should be good to go:

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# export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreetype.so

I have no idea what kind of impact this will have, other than slightly slower startup time (which is what I've observed so far)...

gravis · Post by **gravis** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 10:00 am

Wonderfull !

Fonts are displayed in the preview window now. Every thing looks to work great (I tried on many documents, presentation, spreadsheets).

Will you post a bug report ?

Z? · Post by Z? » Sun Apr 06, 2003 3:37 pm

Glad to hear it worked for someone other than myself.
As for reporting it as a bug, I suppose I can (I hadn't even thought of it, even though I make a living as a software tester

)...
Can you tell I haven't slept much lately?

Z? · Post by Z? » Sun Apr 06, 2003 3:45 pm

...but not for the reason I expected: someone suggested it to speed up/pretty the font rendering in OOo... I added a note indicating that it appears to break OOo-bin-1.0.2, so we'll see what happens. Here's the issue: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14801

sethbc · Post by **sethbc** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 3:49 pm

you have a broken fontpath, un exporting the ld_preload simply masks the problem

refer to bug 8539 or http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html#8

...my fonts aren't broken over here...i suggest you use xfs instead of the FontPath's in the default XF86Config

Z? · Post by Z? » Sun Apr 06, 2003 4:24 pm

...that appears to have worked as well -- once I got xfs working. Thanks for the quick reply.

OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 lost _all_ fonts

OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 lost _all_ fonts

works but...

Quick fix

Bug Report

...actually... this is in Gentoo's bugzilla...

fontpath...

Yaha...