Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office 2.0.4 and fonts

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

Adrian wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I just upgraded Open Office from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 (yes, I'm behind).
>
> Now, I can't use any of the fonts other than the ones which come with
> Open Office.  All my existing fonts which I added were being substituted
> with other fonts.

Have you tried deleting ~/ooo-2.0/user/psprint/pspfontcache and then 
restarting OOO?

It's been a while since I fooled around with OOO fonts, so my memory 
is fuzzy. I seem to have convinced OOO to pick up 2745 fonts, judging 
from the length of pspfontcache. (More than ~3000 fonts and the 
startup times become unbearably long.)

I converted all my OpenType fonts to TrueType with the following script:

#! /bin/env fontforge
# Quick and dirty hack: converts a font to truetype (.ttf), works only 
# with one font.
# Use in a bash loop like this:
#    for font in *.otf ; do
#       fontforge -script otf2ttf $font
#    done
#
Print("Opening "+$1);
Open($1);
Print("Saving "+$1:r+".ttf");
Generate($1:r+".ttf");
Quit(0);

I believe that this script works with Type 1 (PostScript) fonts as 
well, despite what the comments say. (You'll have to change bash loop, 
though to pick up *.pfb or *.pfa??? files.)

Hope this helps...

--- Vladimir

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Vladimir G. Ivanovic
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