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cleanzero
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 Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 12:44 pm Post subject: help on fonts |
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Hi all. I'm using OO 1.1.2 but can't understand why i can't use italic for a lot of fonts. For example if i use Didot it works, if i use Times i must explicitly use TimesItalic, if i use Monaco it doesn't work. I discovered this problem while opening a MS Office Word document formatted as Times New Roman. I tried reinstalling OO but it didn't help. Also how can i load MS Office fonts? I tried spadmin but after selecting MS Office /fonts folder no font didn't show up for selection. Any help is welcome.
thanks.
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OPENSTEP
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This has something to do with how OOo expects font families to be named as opposed to Mac font family names. If a TrueType font is being used and Italic is applied, the italics are actually not displayed on the screen, but the italics should still print out in hardcopy.
There was a thread a while back on fixing up the font family naming issues, but I don't recall offhand if there was a resolution to it or not.
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cleanzero
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| Yes that's exactly what happens. If i select italic i don't see it on screen but if i re-open with MS Word italic is there. That's terrible. Hope someone knows a fix. Is the problem the same also on Neooffice/J and Neooffice? |
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OPENSTEP
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NeoJ doesn't have that display issue with italics AFAIK. Patrick's done quite a bit of work making sure the font families match up properly.
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cleanzero
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javascript:emoticon(' ')That's good news and an opportunity for me to try NeoJ. I'll download it on Monday. |
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sardisson
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| OPENSTEP wrote: | | There was a thread a while back on fixing up the font family naming issues, but I don't recall offhand if there was a resolution to it or not. |
I need to bookmark that thread; it's been coming up left and right lately. 
Short answer: No, I never figured it out. Someone who has lots of free time and knows the OOo code probably could, but I fail both of those conditions 
And the thread Ed mentioned, for all the gory details (esp. if you meet one of the two conditions I mentioned above).
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