Mis-displayed font

[Dangerjunkie]

Hi,

I'm starting a new topic as I'm not sure the problem I have is related to the other current font problem thread.

I'm running OOo Writer and Calc on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy (Kubuntu desktop). Whenever I open a document that I wrote in OOo before that uses the Windows Ariel font the font displays as one of the more artistic TTF fonts I have. When I pull the font menu down Ariel is displayed as the artistic font. I've tried the following (none of which have helped)

* Removed and reinstalled the Ariel font (no difference)
* Removed the artistic font (Ariel is then displayed as the font following the deleted one in the list)
* run fc-cache -f -v (no difference)
* Removed the Ubuntu-ized OOo and replaced it with the current stable build. (no difference.)
* Installed 3.0B2RC1 (no difference.)

The Ariel font displays correctly if I look at it in the KDE font installer. It also displays correctly in Character Map. This problem has only existed since I upgraded to Hardy (Gutsy was fine)

I'd be really grateful for any suggestions you might have on what the problem is and how to fix it.

Thanks,
Paul.

[Hagar Delest]

Have you installed Arial through the msttcorefonts package?
You've upgraded or done a complete reinstall of Hardy? I've seen many threads about issues with the upgrade feature. Better do a complete reinstall (if you've different partitions).

[TheGurkha]

Have you installed the msttcorefonts package?

[Dangerjunkie]

Thanks for the reply. No, I mounted the Windows partition and stole it from there.

Cheers,
Paul.

[Hagar Delest]

So remove the font file and install the package with Synaptic.

[Dangerjunkie]

Sorry, I was incorrect. The package was installed but I think I replaced the font with the Windows copy. I did the following:

* Removed Arial in K>System Settings>Appearance>Font Installer (administrator)
* completely removed the msttcorefonts package
* verified the /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ directory had gone
* did find -depth -print | grep -i ar from /usr/share/fonts and made sure there was nothing that looked like Arial there.
* reinstalled msttcorefonts in synaptic.
* verified that /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts was back and Arial was in it
* Checked Arial was back in the Font Installer
* Logged out and restarted the X Server.

The original symptom is back and the same font (Megadeath) is being displayed by OOo again.

Is there anything else I should have done?

I just opened Xara Extreme and it is displaying Arial correctly.

Thanks,
Paul.

[TheGurkha]

Are you using the Ubuntu version of OOo or the Sun one?

[Hagar Delest]

See here perhaps: [Solved] Display Fonts: OO.o-2.4/Linux.

[Dangerjunkie]

Thanks. I am currently running the latest stable build of 2.4 and 3.0B2RC1 which were both downloaded from the OOo website.

I'd already done the fc-cache -f -v with no success. I tried creating soft links in the 2.4 share/fonts directory to the place my TT fonts are installed as shown in the page above. The behaviour is still the same.

Thanks,
Paul.