Bug 115929 – OpenOffice2 GUI is unreadable

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bram Schoenmakers 2005-12-18 05:55:11 UTC]

OpenOffice2 is unusable for me. All the GUI captions show little weird characters instead of normal texts.

Details: app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.0 . The emerge did not show any problems. Also the Dutch language pack was installed.

[Comment 1 Bram Schoenmakers 2005-12-18 05:56:37 UTC]

Created attachment 75011 [details]
Unreadable captions in OpenOffice.org 2.0.0

This is what I see when I start ooffice.

[Comment 2 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2005-12-18 06:30:54 UTC]

I think I remember this being related to broken fonts, could you try tho change your interface font?

[Comment 3 Marcus 2005-12-20 07:57:15 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> OpenOffice2 is unusable for me. All the GUI captions show little weird
> characters instead of normal texts.
> 
> Details: app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.0 . The emerge did not show any
> problems. Also the Dutch language pack was installed.
> 

I have the same problem: see Screenshot here: http://www.unixboard.de/gallery/files/6/0/0/7/oo20a.jpg

OO 1.1.4 showed normal readable fonts.


Installed Versions: 
app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.0
x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.15-r4



 emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 i686 VIA Nehemiah
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -msse -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -pipe -Os "
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/pam.d /etc/terminfo /usr/lib/X11 /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -msse -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -pipe -Os "
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LC_ALL="de_DE@euro"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS=" -j2 "
PKGDIR="/mnt/scratch/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/mnt/scratch/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/"
USE="3dfx X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bluetooth browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cdr cle266 crypt curl dedicated dga dio directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flash foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm ggi gif glut glx gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq idn imagemagick imap imlib insecure-drivers ipv6 java jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal lcms libedit libg++ libwww lirc lm_sensors mad mhash mikmod mime ming mmx mmx2 mng motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpi mysql mythtv ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl php png pnp posix pthreads python qt quicktime readline recode samba sdl session shared sharedmem smime snmp sockets socks5 source speex spell sse ssl svg svga sysvipc tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unichrome unicode usb v4l vcd vhosts via videos vidix vorbis win32codecs www x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib video_cards_via linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS

[Comment 4 Marcus 2005-12-20 08:18:29 UTC]

OO2 seems to look what fonts are available, for me, these are:

media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.3
media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11
media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-r2
media-fonts/freefonts-0.10-r2
media-fonts/artwiz-fonts-2.4
media-fonts/corefonts-1-r2
media-fonts/sharefonts-0.10-r3
media-fonts/terminus-font-4.11
media-fonts/unifont-1.0-r2
media-fonts/ttf-gentium-1.0.1

btw.: how do you change the interface font ? I do not find a setting in the settings dialog. 

[Comment 5 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2005-12-25 11:22:00 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4
> 
> btw.: how do you change the interface font ? I do not find a setting in the
> settings dialog. 

In the font settings of your desktop environment, OOo should pick them up

[Comment 6 Bram Schoenmakers 2005-12-29 02:44:33 UTC]

I switched to Arial and OOo2 looks fine now. At least the Cursor font breaks the interface.

[Comment 7 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2006-01-13 06:40:02 UTC]

Still not a lot we can do here, OOo-kde support is a little bit picky about the used font unfortunately. If you want to see this solved, file a bug upstream

[Comment 8 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2006-01-20 11:52:13 UTC]

*** Bug 119698 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***