[plug] Open Office

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Thu Jul 11 14:59:52 WST 2002


> Unfortunately I still have font problems - mainly some fonts are 
> _ugly_. Bookman and New Century Schoolbook are awful, while others 
> like Symbol, OpenSymbol, Courier, Charter and Palatino are nice. It 
> seems to ignore the hinting on some fonts. My pet hate is that it 
> doesn't have a proper (GIMP-style) font selector so you can't for 
> example pick adobe-bookman from urw-bookman. Consequently I can't even 
> find out _which_ Bookman, etc its using. It also only wants to see a 
> tiny selection of the fonts I have installed.

OK sorry for the reply-to-self but found some info digging through OO.o 
FAQs:

http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html

Don't know yet if it'll fix the issues but its probably a good starting 
point for anybody here having OO.o font trouble.



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