no text in menus of openoffice

[Guest pbprabhuram]

in mandrake 9.0 , though the openoffice was installed and worked without problems, one time when i opened OO, there was no text displayed in the menus of open office. reinstalling , removing the .openoffice directory did not solve the problem, example the file , edit ..... and all menus were displayed as empty dashes with no text.

[polemicz]

I had the same problem once and I too uninstalled OO and reinstalled with no improvement. It was after I had done a full mdk 9 installation. I reinstalled mdk and the problem went away. Could never figure out what happened to the menus. Hope reinstalling mdk 9 is not a troouble.

[Guest pbprabhuram]

reinstalling means did you mean a fresh install or overwriting the existing files. if you mean the second one , then it is going to be similar to uninstalling and installing openoffice within the os.

can you explain plz ??

[beesea]

i got the same problem when i disabled antialiasing in the options menu. to open up the options menu, click the 3rd menu from the right, and click the bottom entry in that menu. then click this:

 

 

that should get everything back to normal.

[Guest pbprabhuram]

i tried exactly what you said , but it did not sove the problem, is tthere something else ?

[beesea]

the box right below it is the minimum font size for antialiasing. try lowering it a little bit and see if that works. if it doesn't do the trick, then i'm out of suggestions, sorry

[MoonChild]

Fonts fonts fonts. I had the same problem once. All I did was install all the fonts for MDK again. Any package that had anything to do with fonts. Including locales. And it worked for me.

[Falcdragon]

I've just had the same problem. I solved it after a varity of steps.

 

- I uninstalled some dodgy fonts I'd recently installed as well as opensymbol using fontdrake

- went to /etc/openoffice and changed the openoffice config file's font setting to Arial intead of Auto

- Deleted /home/user/.openoffice

- went to /usr/lib/openoffice/share/fonts/truetype/ and created symbolic links to all the MS true type fonts I had installed using font drake. ln -s /xxxx/xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx/* ../

- deleted xftcache

- installed the Openoffice help package.

- Restarted X

 

after that the Font's turned back up in the menu. So one or several of those steps fixes the problem.

[Guest pbprabhuram]

yes it worked , by following steps :

 

1) goto /etc/openoffice directory,

 

2) open the file openoffice.conf

 

3) replace the UI_FONT = "AUTO" with any font name like ARIAL or TIMES ,etc

 

4) After changing : UI_FONT = "TIMES"

 

now font again appear in the menus of OO : )

[Guest Mandrake_Mouse]

Another fix for this is to edit your XF68config-4 file. If you disable the font server by commenting out (#) the line 'FontPath "unix/:-1" ' and adding the actual path to your fonts with something like this:

 

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"

# These are specified in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"

# These are specified in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"

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/misc:unscaled"

 

Be sure you have the following in your "Modules" section, as well :

 

Load "freetype"

Load "type1"

 

This fixed the problem for me, plus I no longer have the font server running, and grabbing resources. :D

[kmack]

I stumbled across something that helped me get myOpenOffice HELP file fonts to display again. They were totally invisible after doing a font upgrade via Mandrake Control Center in 9.0 I followed steps above and used Times as replacement font which helped my menu font problem, but my OO HELP files still were not visible. I must have tried 30 other fonts with no luck. Then I got lucky and through trial and error found this fix!

 

1. Open console and enter 'su' and password to become root.

2. Since I like to use GUI, I enter the command 'kate' to use the kate editor as root.

[root@localhost kelly]# kate

(Note: You can use whatever file editor you like.)

3. Use kate to open and Edit the /etc/openoffice/openoffice.cfg file

4. Delete the '#" in the last line of second paragraph so that the line reads:

FONT_SCALING="AUTO"

( others suggest using value of 110 in place of auto )

5. SAVE the file.

6. [root@localhostkelly]# exit

(don't forget to go back to user status by exiting root)

7. Test your OO help file. It should now be visible.

 

Hope it helps another newbie avoid hours of surfing for a fix! :wink:

[ral]

Thanks, will try it.

 

Funny I did not have this problem when I installed ML last Oct....

[illogic-al]

next time I won't have to reinstall the whole OS. I think this should be put in Tips and Tricks. mods? anyone?