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Date:      Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:53:35 +0000
From:      David Groves <david.groves@imagination.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Fonts, Staroffice and Postscript Printers.
Message-ID:  <3BFB87AF.52C357F5@imagination.com>

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Having some problems with installing new fonts on a staroffice 5.2 with
the target of printing to HP (M) series printers, with built in
postscript support. The X server in question is 4.0.2, using a remote
xfs (which as a 4 series, has built in truetype font support, but that
doesn't really matter).

Starting out with a particular truetype font, I've converted it into a
postscript type 1 font (since this is all that Staroffice can print),
using the tt2ps1 utility that can be found here -->
http://leuksman.com/linux/ttfutils.html

I've then used the type1inst port (the perl script) to add this to my X
server, and this is successful, and I can see the font in xlsfonts, view
it with xfontsel etc ...

However, the next stage involves running the spadmin utility (as root),
to add the font to the staroffice proprietary font/printing systems.
Sadly, when following the instructions exactly as given in the setup
guide, spadmin coredumps just as it is about to finish (after the dialog
box telling you how to change your fontpath on a permanent basis).

I've tried two more fonts, that were already type1 format, so it doesn't
appear to be the conversion.

I have also found this website --> http://linux.nf/stoffont3.html, with
a description of the "under the hood" behaviour of the spadmin utility.
In my case, the symlinks in /opt/Office51/xp3/pssoftfonts (or here,
/compat/linux/usr/local/staroffice/xp3/pssoftfonts),, and
xp3/fontmetrics/afm/ (similar path change). However the update to
xp3/psstd.fonts that is supposed to be performed isn't.

I've tried making this update by hand, but all attempts to do this just
create which doesn't scale on screen (I don't mean gets larger, and
pixelated, it simply looks the same size on screen at 12 point as at 96
point), and prints as Times.

Anyone done/seen this before ?



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