OpenOffice alternative?

[NoOp]

On 05/06/2008 06:55 AM, R Kimber wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2008 15:38:59 +0200
> Nils Kassube wrote:
> 
>> Do you have the font Arial installed? That would be in package 
>> msttcorefonts.
> 
> Yes.  I have that, and it looks as it should in other apps
> 

Perhaps you have Albany as a replacement font. Check
Tools|Options|OpenOffice.org|Fonts

I run & test OOo 2.3.1, 2.4.0, 3.0Beta (standard), StarOffice 8/10, and
(U)OOo 2.3.0 & 2.4.0 (Ubuntu) and cannot reproduce what you are seeing.

Also check to see if you have:
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arialbd.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ariali.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arialbi.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf


This might help:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ
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Note:
  Font Fallback
What is this Font Fallback in OpenOffice.org 2

Font-Fallback kicks in whenever a font is requested that is not
installed on the system. (Not installed means: not available to OOo).

OOo then tries to use a different font from the ones that OOo knows
about that matches the requested one as close as possible.
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Albany is a close match to Arial. I recommend that you reinstall
msttcorefonts:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall msttcorefonts

and then:

sudo fc-cache -f -v

to update all of your font caches.

If you still have problems, you can copy
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arialbd.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ariali.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arialbi.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf

to
/home/<user>/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arialbd.ttf
/home/<user>/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ariali.ttf
/home/<user>/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arialbi.ttf
/home/<user>/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf