[PC-BSD Testing] MS Font PBI not working?

[Kris Moore]

Jeff,

We'll need to take these on a case by case basis I think, since different apps may be looking for fonts in different places.

First, for OO 3.1.0_2.

On my system it seems to be working perfectly. I have TrueTypeFonts1.0 installed here. Then I made the link
I suggested:

cd /Programs/OpenOffice*/etc
# ln -s /PCBSD/local/etc/fonts fonts
# ls -al fonts
   lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  22 Aug 25 09:09 fonts -> /PCBSD/local/etc/fonts

I open OO, select a new text-doc, and I see Verdana, Times new Roman, and all the other TrueType fonts that KDE seems to
have.

If that doesn't work, check /Programs/OpenOffice*/lib, and see if you have a X11 -> /PCBSD/local/lib/X11 symlink in there



--
Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Jeff wrote:

> It seems the path to fonts for OO on my system is:
> 
> /Programs/OpenOffice3.1.0_2/openoffice.org-3.1.0/openoffice.org/basis3.1/share/fonts/truetype
> 
> --- On Tue, 8/25/09, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org> wrote:
>
>       From: Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org>
>       Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] MS Font PBI not working?
>       To: "PC-BSD Testing list" <testing at lists.pcbsd.org>
>       Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 9:16 AM
> 
> 
>
>       Jeff,
>
>       The font PBI installs fonts to the system folder properly, but it looks like OO, and probably the other PBIs aren't
>       looking in the system folder for fonts. Give this a shot and let me know if it fixes it:
>
>       cd /Programs/OpenOffice*/etc
>       ln -s /PCBSD/local/etc/fonts fonts
>
>       start OO, do you have the fonts now? If so, I'll get that fix put into the PBIs right away.
>
>       As for KDE 4.3.0, it'll be included with PC-BSD 8.0 later this year. Its a large update, since it moves us to QT 4.5
>       and I'm having to fix up a lot of our tools to work on it :)
> 
>
>       --
>       Kris Moore
>       PC-BSD Software
>
>       On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Jeff wrote:
>
>       > I have the MS True-type font PBI installed, but can't see any of the fonts in FF3 or OpenOffice or Abi Word.  Where exactly
>       are they
>       > supposed to be available?
>       >
>       > I presume there's no UI for this PBI and it just installs fonts somewhere.
>       >
>       > Every application seems to have its own set of fonts with some that apparently come with KDE.  There are lots of other
>       available fonts
>       > out there but there's no good way of centrally managing them and installing them in KDE it seems, complicated by the
>       different font
>       > packaging techniques. Seems to me there used to be some KDE font manager/installer app but I can't find it in the menu, and
>       from what I
>       > remember, it wasn't especially useful.
>       >
>       > What to do?
>       >
>       > P.S., When might we expect an upgrade to KDE 4.3?
>       >
>       >
>       >
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