Issue 1803 - StarOffice should instantly be able to use all installed scalable fonts.
Summary: StarOffice should instantly be able to use all installed scalable fonts.
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: ui
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: Other Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: ulf.stroehler
QA Contact: issues@ui
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: 11084 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2001-10-06 01:03 UTC by mikemaccana
Modified: 2003-05-20 16:30 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description mikemaccana 2001-10-06 01:03:05 UTC 
On the Linux platform with the XFree86 X server, OpenOffice, unlike all QT and 
GTK applications, does not seem to be able to recognize recently installed 
fonts. Instead advanced users must trawl through the `StarOffice Truetype Font 
HOWTO' and perform various operation on their fonts to make them available to 
OpenOffice. New users generally wouldn't be able to follow this guide as its 
fairly technical in nature.

OpenOffice should perform whatever work is necessary to use all installed 
scalable fonts within its applications upon startup.

This would be benefical in the following ways:

* Allows new users to use their installed fonts in StarOffice
* Allows advanced users to use their installed fonts in StarOffice without 
having to perform a great deal of work in setting up and maintaining their 
font collection
* Allows consistency between OpenOffice and all other applications installed 
on a system

Thanks guys!
Comment 1 stefan.baltzer 2001-10-08 13:20:20 UTC 
Reassigned to Ulf.
Comment 2 ulf.stroehler 2001-10-08 15:55:02 UTC 
Generally this issue describes exactly what OpenOffice does. All
installed scalable fonts (Type 1 and TrueType) are detected by OO and
can be used. The restriction is RedHat and their derivatieves. They
have no FontPath set in XF86Config and instead a fontserver defined.
This is currently not taken into account from OO. If you are a user of
RedHat or one of it's derivatieves you can workaround the problem by
linking your scalable fonts into
<openoffice_root_dir>/share/fonts/truetype/ to make them usable in OO.
But generally scalable fonts should work in OO right out of the box.
If you have a special problem with one specific font (and you have not
the above described 'RedHat-problem') please let me know. Otherwise I
consider this one as a 'Reminder' to solve the problem with the
fontserver on RedHat and others.
Comment 3 Unknown 2003-01-30 14:02:31 UTC 
*** Issue 11084 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 4 ulf.stroehler 2003-01-30 16:02:21 UTC 
This has been resolved for ages. Works at least in OOo1.0.1.
Comment 5 thorsten.ziehm 2003-05-20 16:30:57 UTC 
closed ...