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Font conversion
 
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mrmac
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Joined: Mar 01, 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:49 pm    Post subject: Font conversion

I just installed OpenOffice on my mac with X11. The installer got stuck while "Converting Fonts" as pointed out on this site, and I forced it to quit. The program itself works fine but I want to convert my fonts manually. There is a lot of talk about doing that on this site but I can't find any explination of how to do it. I'm not very comfortable with text commands (command line and stuff), but if I have to I'll give it a try. Can anyone help me Question

-B. Ferioli
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OPENSTEP
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Joined: May 25, 2003
Posts: 4752
Location: Santa Barbara, CA

PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:34 pm    Post subject:

If you had a problem with the font conversion hanging, chances are it's the different volume bug. If you're not comfortable with the Terminal, you may be able to convert them using Start OOo (haven't done this in a while, so this may not be 100% accurate):


    1) Find your dfont file
    2) Drag over the Start OpenOffice.org icon
    3) This will result in a ".ttf" file on your Desktop
    4) Drag this file into the share/fonts/truetype subdirectory of your OOo installation
    5) Remove the share/pspfontcache file (may be in share/psprint)
    6) Relaunch OOo. Will take some time as it rebuilds the font cache, but your new font should appear. If OOo crashes on start, the font is incompatible and needs to be removed and pspfontcache removed again after the .ttf file is removed.


ed
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sardisson
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Joined: Feb 01, 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:28 pm    Post subject:

OPENSTEP wrote:
you may be able to convert them using Start OOo (haven't done this in a while, so this may not be 100% accurate):


    1) Find your dfont file
    2) Drag over the Start OpenOffice.org icon
    3) This will result in a ".ttf" file on your Desktop
    4) Drag this file into the share/fonts/truetype subdirectory of your OOo installation


I haven't done it in a while, either, but my understanding is that Start OpenOffice.org installs the font where it is supposed to go.

Regardless, Terry will come by and tell us to read the documentation for Start OpenOffice.org, which is well-written and very complete Smile

N.B. I had to use three different versions of fondu to convert all of my fonts; I haven't checked to see what the latest version is, but some versions would crash (or fail to convert) some fonts and others would do just fine. (I did this all from the Terminal when I discovered OOo was missing half of my fonts....) YMMV. The installer, however, never hung while converting fonts for me.

Smokey

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OPENSTEP
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:35 am    Post subject:

It only hangs on a subset of systems which is why we never found it in our testing. It's also directly related to installing OOo onto a drive that's not your boot partition. (there's an "mv" without a "-f", so the hang is really just a terminal waiting for input that will never come)

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