On many popup dialog boxes in openoffice (oocalc/oowriter tested), there is lots of text missing. EG, in the 'Export to PDF' dialog, the only text I can see is: 'Tagged PDF', 'Export notes', Cancel and Help. The tabs at the top have no text in them either. Many other dialog boxes display the same behaviour, while others display with no errors. A brief list of faulty ones: File/Export as PDF Insert/Chart Tools/Solver Data/Dataform Some working ones: File/Save As File/Export File/Properties File/Printer Settings Format/Cells Data/Sort Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge any version of openoffice >= 2.0.0 2. Run oocalc, or oowriter 3. 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Attach some screenshots please.
Normaly such behaviour is caused by broken fonts, try to set another one for your interface
Created attachment 145196 [details] Working dialog: File/Properties Working Dialog
Created attachment 145197 [details] Broken Dialog: Insert/Chart
Created attachment 145198 [details] Broken Dialog: File/Export as PDF
I have tried setting different system fonts - the fonts in openoffice change, but the dialogs still have the same problem
(In reply to comment #6) > I have tried setting different system fonts - the fonts in openoffice change, > but the dialogs still have the same problem > Did you also restart OOo in between? Also: You might also try if this is caused by a broken theme... And a totally different thought: Does starting OOo with LANG="C" oowriter change anything?
I did not restart *every* time, but I did enough times to exclude that as the problem. Also, setting LANG=C does not change anything, neither does LANG=en_US
Do you still get this with 2.4.0?
No, 2.4.0 appears to have fixed the problem.
(In reply to comment #10) > No, 2.4.0 appears to have fixed the problem. > Ok, thanks for reporting back
