Not sure if this is a bug in OO, but it seems to emerge requiring a font which doesn't seem to be installed by any of its dependency packages. I will attach a pair of screenshots. Renders app unusable. -- Curious
Created attachment 4304 [details] A shot of the default window. This is just what it looks like when you load in - notice the lack of system text in dropdowns, etc. My guess is it's missing some kind of Arial font. -- Curious
Created attachment 4305 [details] The same effect, but with a menu - note the keystroke highlights. Another shot, showing a dropdown menu. -- Curious
I have two computers: G (running Gentoo 1.4_rc1) and M (running Mandrake 9.0). Openoffice 1.0.1 works fine on M, but it is missing all text for menus etc on G. Now when I (1) sit in front of G; (2) ssh to M; (3) run openoffice on M (to display on G's X11 display), then the same problem occurs... all text from menus is missing. This indicates that this is a bug with Gentoo's X11 configuration rather than with Gentoo's build of openoffice.
Hooray!!! I finally can see fonts in my openoffice gui again! Okay, I'm runnin gentoo 1.4-rc1, openoffice-bin-1.0.1, xfree 4.2.0-r12. Below is what I did to work around the problem. I did this based upon the information I found at http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html#8 . There is also a discussion of this problem somewhere on the forums. 1. I first disabled all the truetype and type1 (everything but 75dpi and 100dpi) font paths. You can do this by commenting out the font paths in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file or using "xset -fn". Then rerun the X server. 2. Running ooffice, I had fonts in the gui again. Now, run ooffice and change the gui font by selecting: Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org -> Font Replacement Check "Apply Replacement Table" and enter "Andale Sans UI" (without the quotation marks), and replace it with "Ariel" (or whatever font you have). Also check the "always" and "screen" box. 3. Now you should be able to re-enable the font paths that you disabled in step one. Restart the X server. Hopefully everything will now work.
*** Bug 9134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There's an even simpler method of getting the fonts to work in openoffice: Just add the following line in to the appropriate section of XF86Config and you're done: FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/" Greets Matt
*** Bug 8335 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 11502 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Same problem here. Openoffice worked fine, emerging xfree-4.2.1-r2 ruined it. I think it's time to move this bugreport to the xfree ebuild maintainers - could they take care that this font works (as it does in other distributions, and as it did in earlier ebuilds)?
is this still a problem?
I can't test if it is solved or still a problem, I've no machine for playing around with it. * Has anything changed in Xfree? (in my opinion, the problem is in Gentoo's xfree, not in OpenOffice) * What do the Xfree people say about this? * As there are several hints and discussions about this problem (and as these hints made OpenOffice happy again in my case), could someone with a deeper insight into Xfree fonts analyze the technical backgrounds of these workarounds (i.e. why things break and what makes them working again)?
db fix
