Seem to be always asking for help with obscure things that drive one nuts!
I had OO v1.5 installed on Mandriva. Got the rpms and installed 2.0 in the usual way (rpm -Uvh). Everything is fine. Except that Times New Roman, which would of course be the default font that all the documents are saved in, doesn't print properly. Displays perfectly. Prints however in some sort of default computerish font, the same whether you select bold, italic and whatever size.
When I go into drakfont, there seem to be two copies of TNR. But its obscure to me what exactly I will be deleting if I try the delete option - it seems to be offering to delete a lot of fonts from a lot of places all at once, when presumably if to delete anything, its just one of the TNRs probably from one place. When I do spadmin, I hardly see any of the fonts. But others that are not shown print fine.
It also still works just fine in OO 1.5 if I go back into that. Aarrrgh!
What would you all do next?
Peter
On Fri, 26 May 2006 16:50:50 +0100, "Peter" berriep@btinternet.com said:
Seem to be always asking for help with obscure things that drive one nuts!
I had OO v1.5 installed on Mandriva. Got the rpms and installed 2.0 in the usual way (rpm -Uvh). Everything is fine. Except that Times New Roman, which would of course be the default font that all the documents are saved in, doesn't print properly. Displays perfectly. Prints however in some sort of default computerish font, the same whether you select bold, italic and whatever size.
When I go into drakfont, there seem to be two copies of TNR. But its obscure to me what exactly I will be deleting if I try the delete option - it seems to be offering to delete a lot of fonts from a lot of places all at once, when presumably if to delete anything, its just one of the TNRs probably from one place. When I do spadmin, I hardly see any of the fonts. But others that are not shown print fine.
It also still works just fine in OO 1.5 if I go back into that. Aarrrgh!
What would you all do next?
Don't really know the answer to this, but there are a couple of things you could try:
*) print to PDF and see if the font looks correct; then try printing the PDF directly.
*) remove the old OOo 1.1.5 using your distro's normal procedure in case its fonts are conflicting.
Which version is current in your distro? Sometimes shoe-horning a different version of something into one of the more homogeneous distros like Mandriva can cause things to conflict. Could you upgrade your distro? Or stick with OOo 1.1.5?
Also, if you're still stuck you may want to try asking the people on http://www.oooforum.org/ or http://mandrivausers.org/.
Cheers, Richard -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis Sonic Arts Research Archive http://www.sara.uea.ac.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 16:50 +0100, Peter wrote:
When I do spadmin, I hardly see any of the fonts. But others that are not shown print fine.
It also still works just fine in OO 1.5 if I go back into that. Aarrrgh!
I hate spadmin.....as far as I can tell it is redundant anyway.
I had a massive problem with spadmin on 64bit Ubuntu, it didn't work at all and OO prints went into a black hole. spadmin would crash when you tried to run it. When it was like this (fixed in OOo2) I found that I could print to a file and then print this file from a console with lpr.
If that works at least you know spadmin is causing the problem.
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