What happened to the (commonly used) Helvetica & Times fonts in the Fedora Core 1 openoffice oowriter application? (Standard
FC1 RPMs openoffice.org-1.1.0-16 openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.0-16 openoffice.org-libs-1.1.0-16)
Access to Helvetica and Times fonts was available and working with OpenOffice.org1.1.0 running under Redhat 7.3. Access to Helvetica and Times appears to be missing in the standard openoffice RPMs distributed with FC1. I.e. Helvetica and Times do not appear in the font selection pulldown menu at the top of the oowriter window under stock FC1. And if the 3 packages openoffice.org-1.1.0-16 openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.0-16 openoffice.org-libs-1.1.0-16 are removed under FC1, and OOo_1.1.1_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz is downloaded from www.openoffice.org and installed, Helvetica and Times are selectable, but Helvetica is rendered on-screen with excessive space between words, and Times is rendered on-screen completely incorrectly as another font -- Lucinda Typewriter.
Attempting to substitute another available font similar to Helvetica or Times does ot solve the problem because these substituted fonts later are rendered with unacceptable quality by applications such as acroread or xpdf after the output from oowriter or swriter is converted to pdf.
Not being able to reliably use the often needed Helvetica and Times fonts with openoffice under FC1 is a severe limitation for our users, who are currently forced to locate older redhat 7.3 systems in order to successfully work with openoffice. Other applications distributed with FC1 such as xfig appear to successfully handle Helvetica and Times font selections. What can be quickly done to bring FC1's openoffice up to the same level of Helvetica and Times font
functionality as we had with openoffice 1.0 under Redhat 7.3?
(formated this post to make it readable - foolish)
Ug
2004-05-11, 12:52 AM PDT
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
bmckie
2004-05-11, 06:48 PM PDT
Thanks for the corefonts idea, but still no joy.
Installing additional fonts under FC1 as described at http://corefonts.sourceforge.net
and adding them to the openoffice (1.1.0-16) font collection via spadmin made new fonts accessible from the openoffice oowriter application, but Helvetica was not among them. Worse, the Times font that was added, when chosen as the current font in the oowriter window, is rendered as some other font (a sans serif font, obviously not Times).
Why is it that std FC1 applications like gimp and xfig successfully support the commonly needed Helvetica and Times fonts, while openoffice under FC1 does not? And why were these fonts working fine with openoffice 1.1.0 under redhat 7.3, but are missing with the openoffice 1.1.0 distributed under FC1?
-bmckie
Jman
2004-05-11, 08:08 PM PDT
OpenOffice does do some special font rendering.
Where are your fonts located? /usr/share/fonts is common. Perhaps copy the fonts to a subdirectory and run mkfontdir and fc-cache This generates a font index.
All the details of the fonts OOo loads are in the /usr/lib/openoffice/share/psprint/pspfontcache file. Run cat /usr/lib/openoffice/share/psprint/pspfontcache | grep ttf | less to see all the TrueType fonts.
See this OOo font FAQ: http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html