Bug 327635 – app-office/openoffice source version uses bad font for some elements

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description tylendel 2010-07-09 16:57:46 UTC]

Using the openoffice source version, certain elements default to using the mathematica 5 font.  This includes column headers in base, on the ruler in writer, and in the text area of help (see above screenshots).  These fonts don't seem to be changeable anywhere in the options, and entering a substitution for Mathematica 5 doesn't do anything.  Uninstalling the mathematica fonts package causes it to use a different font, but it's not much better.  Attached a couple of screenshots.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -av openoffice mathematica-fonts
2. open writer
3. open help

Actual Results:  
certain elements of openoffice use mathematica 5, very ill-suited for this use.

Expected Results:  
Openoffice uses a better font, or has some way in options to change it to a better font.

This does not happen with the openoffice-bin package.

[Comment 1 tylendel 2010-07-09 16:59:10 UTC]

Created attachment 238133 [details]
openoffice help screen

openoffice help screen with mathematica 5 font

[Comment 2 tylendel 2010-07-09 17:00:03 UTC]

Created attachment 238135 [details]
writer ruler

writer ruler with mathematica 5.

[Comment 3 tylendel 2010-07-09 17:04:08 UTC]

Created attachment 238139 [details]
base column headers

column headers in base table data view

[Comment 4 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2011-07-29 13:02:17 UTC]

Do you still see this with libreoffice 3.4? (which has some changes in regards to font handling)

[Comment 5 tylendel 2011-07-29 15:48:04 UTC]

No, haven't had it pop up in LibreOffice, thanks for reminding me :)

[Comment 6 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2011-07-29 16:42:02 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> No, haven't had it pop up in LibreOffice, thanks for reminding me :)

Thanks for reporting back :-)