On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:58, 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. The Standard Symbol font is invisible for me and the OpenSymbol font results in open rectangles. There is no output on a printed sheet either. What is the bug number you submitted? I'll add my comments to it. My system is a fresh install of Fedora Core 1. I also have a boot partition that is an upgrade from RHL9. I'll check this out there. Gerry
