Font problem with Openoffice

[Michi26]

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Writer doesn't print properly when new fonts have been installed (cf. Issue 68536 at www.openoffice.org). This can be solved only by running
'/usr/lib/openoffice/program/spadmin.bin'
and adding all the fonts in the subdirectories of /usr/share/fonts to Openoffice. Maybe there should be a better integration of GNOME font management with Openoffice font management? For an average user it is almost impossible to find the 'spadmin.bin'-command.
I would expect that copying the font files to 'Fonts' with Nautilus is enough to use and print them with Openoffice.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

as suggested by upstream, you should run fc-cache -f after the manual installation of fonts. when fonts are install from .deb packages, this is done by the installation scripts of the font packages.

proposing to close this report.

[Michi26 (michi26)]

For the average user, this solution is too complicated. Maybe there should be a Gnome app for installing new fonts (which runs fc-cache automatically)?
I think, a manual installation of new fonts (e. g. the fonts from an existing windows installation) is a quite normal task. Shouldn't this work without the command line?

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

This should be part of the 'draining the font swamp' discussion on the -devel mailing list. It seems the real issue here is that we need a better tool for manually installing fonts, which needs to be speced up, etc.