2009-Feb-06
I am about to teach a lecture using an Impress presentation, but viewing in Openoffice.org 2 looked bad since was apparently missing Courier 10 Pitch. No message warning me or asking me to suggest replacement. The document also uses Courier New and that works fine.
(I had downgraded from openoffice 3 as the document formatting is broken with that and we can't reformat the 500+ slides before upcoming lectures. So need to stay with openoffice 2 for now.)
I see openoffice 2 is bundled with many fonts / types including LiberationMono-Regular.ttf which I believe provides my "Courier New". My NetBSD system had the other font that I needed:
$ fc-list : family file | grep -i courier | grep -i pitch /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/c0583bt_.pfb: Courier 10 Pitch /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/c0582bt_.pfb: Courier 10 Pitch /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/c0611bt_.pfb: Courier 10 Pitch /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/c0419bt_.pfb: Courier 10 Pitch
(The font-bitstream-type1 package also has these.)
I searched and searched and read many docs but couldn't find intructions for this. The openoffice site was overwhelming and the searching there was no help. Finally google led me to this openoffice.org page. I had looked at the Printer Administration tool before but didn't notice it was for fonts too.
So here are my steps to get openoffice2 work for Courier 10 Pitch (and some other fonts too).
Ran /usr/pkg/lib/OpenOffice.org2.4.2/program/spadmin tool. Click Fonts... button and it showed my current fonts (known to openoffice2). I clicked Add... and the checked the "Create soft links only" checkbox. Then clicked '...' button for Source directory. Chose new Source directory (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/) and pressed Select and it then showed a list of fonts including ones I needed. I chose "Select All" and then "Ok". A popup said 28 new fonts were added.
Symlinks were created in ~/.openoffice.org2/user/fonts/ for .pfa and .pfb PostScript Type 1 font files and .afm files. I had to restart openoffice for it to recognize this new symlinks -- and it worked.
Sure seems wrong for openoffice (even version 3) to bundle a huge amount of fonts and do its own font management.