Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror & Open Office : font problems

[Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca>]

060709 Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/9/06, Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> (1) Konqueror 3.5.3 (3.5.1 3.5.2) displays news sites with an ugly font
>> despite 'Standard font = New Century Schoolbook, min/med size 11';
>> there is no problem with Firefox: see
>>   http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/font-konq.png
>>   http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/font-firefox1.png
> Konqueror is honoring document-specified fonts instead of your choice.
> Yahoo specifies Verdana for everything, so that is what Konqueror displays.
> You can override this brutally via the "Accessibility" style sheet,
> customizing it to force the "same font family for all text".

Yes, that works, but only if you restart Konqueror:
that trapped me previously, as I didn't think it needed restarting.
However, a different problem arises, as vital header text is now missing:

  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/font-firefox2.png
  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/font-konq2.png

This happens on other sites too.  I don't know how to write style sheets,
though I can find these in ~/.kde : can you suggest what to add
or do you know of a beginners' guide to style sheets anywhere ?

>> (2) Open Office 2.0.3 (2.0.2) insists on overlarge fonts for menus,
>> despite my setting 'Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice -> Fonts:
>> automatic, non-proportional, size 10'; it is cured only when I set
>> 'Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice -> View: scaling = 80 % '
>> & '125 %' in the toolbar: see ( 1 = former , 2 = latter )
>>   http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/font-oo1.png
>>   http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/font-oo2.png
> Make sure you have "Use system font for user interface" selected
> in "Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->View"

It makes no difference when I select that: any further suggestions ?
Perhaps I need to change the "system font" somewhere ?
IIRC this started only with OO 2.0.2 : does that give any clues ?

Thanks for your helpful assistance.  Anyone else have thoughts ?

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