fonts problem

[Ezra Drummond]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:58:34 +0100
Huub <"v.niekerk at hccnet.nl"@crater.dragonflybsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just installed OpenOffice.org 2.1 and RealPlayer, but they report to 
> have problems with fonts. At first, they couldn't find any fonts file, 
> so I copied those from NetBSD and put them in /etc/fonts/, but had same 
> problem. BTW, on NetBSD both OpenOffice.org 2.1 and RealPlayer work 
> fine. Then I found hints on the net telling they should be put in ~/, so 
> I copied them to ~/.fonts.conf and ~/.fonts.dtd. Now realplayergold does 
> start, but after some time it crashes with a core dump 
> (realplayergold.bin.core). OpenOffice.org starts with the initiating 
> logo, and that's it. The logo stays on screen, and nothing happens. If I 
> e.g. start swriter, with 'ps ax' I can see there are 6 of the same 
> processes of swriter. If I start swriter by hand in a terminal, crtl-c 
> ends the startup, but not the processes. I have to kill those by 'kill -9'
> Do I miss something?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Huub

Make a .fonts directory in your home directory and add some fonts to it. If you have a windows xp system you could copy the fonts. Then you need to run these commands
# mkfontscale /home/your ~ directory/.fonts
# mkfontdir /home/your ~ directory/.fonts
# fc-cache -v /home/your ~ directory/.fonts
   Good luck


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Ezra Drummond <ezra at cwjamaica.com>