RH 8 font problem

[Aaron Grewell]

OO uses its own list of fonts, as you have discovered.  To edit the
list, run oopadmin and whack the fonts button.  You can add and remove
fonts available to OO there.

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 11:27, Tim Wunder wrote:
> I've been trying to troubleshoot a problem with TrueType fonts and RH 8. I *had* TrueType fonts sorta working, but was getting occasional crashes of XFS (x font server). After playing with the system over the weeked, I mananged to find a way to crash xfs 100% of the time. All I needed to do was try to change fonts in an OOo document.
> 
> In order to try and rectify the problem once and for all, I decided to try to uninstall the TTF's and re-install them according to http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/ref-guide/s1-x-fonts.html
> 
> In the process of doing this, I ran into this known bug,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77272
> which indicates a problem that ttmkfdir has with bad ttf fonts. So I managed to find a set of fonts, thru the process of elimination, that ttmkfdir liked, but I'm still having problems.
> 
> I installed my "good" fonts into /usr/share/fonts/TrueType
> I then ran ttmkfdir to create the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files.
> I then ran chkfontdir --add /usr/share/fonts/TrueType and
> chkfontdir --list to make sure the directory got listed.
> I then ran /sbin/service xfs restart to reload the new fonts
> 
> But, when I ran xlsfonts, none of the new fonts were listed. I've since tried to install only a single font in the /usr/share/fonts/TrueType directory, comic.ttf, but even that seems to be failing. 
> 
> And there's more puzzling stuff...
> OOo seems to see the TTF fonts, now, despite them not being seen by xlsfonts. I just started OOo remotely and al the previously installed TTF's appear to be available. Damn peculiar. Where does OOo find fonts? It's listing ALL the TTF's I *had* installed, even though they shouldn't *be* instaled anymore (cuz I'm only trying to get the 1 font to be seen by xlsfonts). I originally had the fonts installed in 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType, but have since removed that directory.
> 
> I'm getting close to being at my wit's end on this. Anybody have a large clue stick they can hit me with?
> 
> Thanks, 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
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