OpenOffice lost system font

[killer668]

Hi there !
My OpenOffice seems to have lost its system font (messages, menus, buttons, ...). I see only blank windows. I still can enter texts etc. in the documents but it's not much fun without any functionality ...
I think it happened when I installed Windows fonts in my Mandrake 8.2.
Anybody experienced a similar problem / knows how to tell OO which font to use for its menus and stuff ?
Thanks for any help :eek:

[carlywarly]

I was just looking at my installation. There should be a directory like /usr/local/office1.0/share/fonts/truetype in your directory structure. It depends where you installed the main program.

It looks like OO uses opens .ttf which should be in that directory. Also in the directory are 2 more files, fonts_dir.global and fonts.dir
Each of these files is identical and contains the text -
1
opens___.ttf -sun-OpenSymbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1

Does any of this help?

[smokybobo]

I've never encountered this but one thing I would try if this ever happened to me would be to try and repair the installation or as a last resort reinstall the installation.

And by reinstalling I don't mean the entire openoffice install, just the net install where it puts ~1-2MB of data in your home directory.

And to my knowledge openoffice only comes with the opensymbol font which is just stuff like $#@&

[killer668]

Good idea, BUT it's the same for OO network installation program and even when I try a completely new installation.

[killer668]

I would have supposed that sth went wrong with the x- fonts in general, but everything else is running fine, even kylix.
Any idea what could be wrong ?:rolleyes:

[mdwatts]

You could try switching around the font order in /etc/X11/XF86Conifg (-4).

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ghostscript"
EndSection

Try moving the TrueType font line down a bit. Not sure it will help, but it might be worth a try.

[killer668]

OK, I'll try.
Thank you !!!
:)

[killer668]

Did not work. I gave up and re- installed Mandrake, now everything's great again ;)
Thanks for help to all of you :D