manly Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 Some things I did: Imported Windows Fonts Turned on antialising in KDE, changed to antialised fonts Installed and activated High Performance Liquid Now, no text shows in OpenOffice. Documents show properly, but dialogs, buttons, etc are blank. I tried renaming my .openoffice directory, and reinstalling openoffice. No effect. I also tried loading OO up in windowmaker. Suggestions? Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef_kunal Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 to fix this you have to go to file:/home</your home directory >/.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/common there edit the file called commaon or something and find the section about fornt replacement. then put in the name of the font you want to use and also set the value of <Replace fonts> or something like that to 1. then on restarting openoffice you should be able to see your menus agin. im sory for being so vague but this happened to me too a long time ago and i dont remeber excatly what i did. nbut on changing the value in the common.xml to arail or somehting like that all the menu fonts etc reappeared as arial. Try it, im sure youll figure it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manly Posted January 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 I found the right file. I tried playing with the Font section, and deleting it entirely. Here is what it looks like: <Font> <Substitution> <FontPairs cfg:element-type="FontReplacement"> <FontReplacement state="replaced" cfg:name="_0"> <Always cfg:type="boolean">true</Always> <OnScreenOnly cfg:type="boolean">true</OnScreenOnly> <ReplaceFont cfg:type="string">Andale Sans UI</ReplaceFont> <SubstituteFont cfg:type="string">Luxi Sans</SubstituteFont> </FontReplacement> </FontPairs> <Replacement cfg:type="boolean">true</Replacement> </Substitution> </Font> This section doesn't appear on the same file under OpenOffice for Windows. Can someone post a copy of their file? Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcdragon Posted January 29, 2003 Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 go to /etc/openoffice/ as root or su. Open openoffice.conf and change the line that reads FONT=AUTO to FONT=ARIAL . Then delete your /home/username/.openoffice directory and load openoffice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef_kunal Posted January 29, 2003 Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 ok here what i think i did is: <Font> <Substitution> <FontPairs cfg:element-type="FontReplacement"> <FontReplacement state="replaced" cfg:name="_1"> <Always cfg:type="boolean">true</Always> <OnScreenOnly cfg:type="boolean">true</OnScreenOnly> <ReplaceFont cfg:type="string">Andale Sans UI</ReplaceFont> <SubstituteFont cfg:type="string">Helvetica</SubstituteFont> </FontReplacement> </FontPairs> <Replacement cfg:type="boolean">true</Replacement> </Substitution> </Font> see the changes i have typed in the third and the 8th lines. That i think did the trick for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted January 29, 2003 Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 Here is what I posted on 2 Jan on this board. You can also check the thread (url below) for some other ideas. 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. Quote: [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: Quote: 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! http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...1722&highlight= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manly Posted January 29, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 Thanks - it worked perfectly :-). Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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