Re: emergency: Openoffice, Fonts, what a mess

From: David (david_at_davesbackpages.com)
Date: 01/07/04

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    On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:54:19PM -0800, David wrote:
    > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:12:13AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote:
    > > Hello,
    > >
    > > today, I did the usual apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on my
    > > girfriend's machine.
    > > In the process, the Openoffice backport was upgraded from 1.0.xx to
    > > 1.1.xx. This has severe side effects.
    > >
    > > In short: practically all the homework she has done over the christmas
    > > holidays (and has to submit tomorrow morning) has been messed up quite a
    > > bit. Going over it manually would take hours even if she was fresh and
    > > wide awake -- however, it's already early in the morning over here.
    > >
    > > As far as I can tell, it is related to fonts having magically
    > > disappeared. At any rate, she now has only five fonts available to chose
    >
    > Would enabling True Type fonts help?
    >
    > Try this link:
    > http://home.t-online.de/home/c.ehbrecht/WebWiki/TrueTypeFonts.html
    > I rember finding a *REALLY* good howto online. I don't think this is
    > it, but if I find it I'll follow up.
    >
    > I wish you the best of luck on this.
    Here's the the link:
    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TT-Debian.html#toc3

    and also this looks good:
    www.linuxtransfer.com/h/installation_truetypefonts.pdf

    Even refers to using the fonts in OpenOffice.

    >
    > > from -- in effect the layout has been garbled.
    > > The symbol font she originally used (don't as which) is also gone. Now
    > > there's OpenSymbol available, but all the greek letters she has entered
    > > so far are merely blanks.
    > >
    > > I'm quite at a loss, and she's in tears. I have no clue what actually
    > > has happened other than the now missing fonts. Nor do I know what
    > > actually has been changed in this painsome upgrade, or how I could find
    > > out, or undo it.
    > >
    > > If anybody has a clue what has happened, or even knows a fix, please
    > > tell me. Anything. Doesn't need to be nice, as long as we can print her
    > > stuff the way it was meant to look like.
    > >
    > > My own approach to the problem will be to install as many fonts as I can
    > > in the hope that things will be in order once the fonts she originally
    > > used are available again. However, I don't know where to get them other
    > > than by picking packages through aptitude. I think I installed
    > > everything that seemed appropriate for western europe, but I'll look
    > > again after this is sent.
    > >
    > > In the meantime, she'll start going over her files manually.
    > >
    > > She says the fonts she used were "Times" and "Symbol".
    > > IIRC, those were from Microsoft. Someday, I had a package that
    > > downloaded them. I don't even know which package that was, or why they
    > > now seem to be gone.
    > >
    > > Any help would be great.
    > >
    > >
    > > TIA,
    > > Schnobs
    > >
    > >
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