Hi Mikko, I do not have THIS problem, but OO symbol font is indeed a major problem for me, in a scientific environment. This may be because I have the MS-core fonts installed? Have you tried a global replacement of symbol with open-symbol? (tools->options->Fonts) Bill Murray On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 14:58, Mikko Huhtala wrote: > The 'Symbol' font is invisible in the font menu of OpenOffice 1.1 > Writer. The characters themselves in text are either not rendered at > all or are rendered wrong. Reading in existing documents with > e.g. Greek letters does show the glyphs, but they are rendered on top > of adjacent characters that are in other fonts. > > The problem occurs with both the RPM-packaged OOo 1.1 that comes with > Fedora Core 1 and OOo 1.1 installed using the installer package from > the OOo web site. The Symbol font *does* work using the exactly same > version, installation and config files of OOo on Red Hat 9, which > makes me think that the new fontconfig or something in Fedora breaks > OOo. > > Can someone verify this? Is this a known problem? I submitted a bug in > the RH bugzilla, but there have been no responses. > > I'm looking to update a dozen or so desktops in a scientific lab. The > font problem may seem like a small thing, but it is actually a > showstopper bug for us, since almost everyone's documents have a few > alphas, betas, gammas etc. per sentence. > > Mikko > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- William John Murray <w.murray@xxxxxxxx> CCLRC