[CLUE-Tech] Conga

[Jed S. Baer]

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 19:51:30 -0700
"David L. Willson" <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> wrote:

> I've been using OpenOffice for invoices for about a year.  Now that I've
> loaded FC1, I've got a problem.  No Conga font.  The text in two
> sections of all my existing invoices have disappeared.
>
> So, here's my question:
> How do I install Conga, or failing that, setup my system so that Conga
> is satisfied by the 'next nearest font'?

Well, that depends. If you want to install the font _only_ for OpenOffice,
you can do it using the /path/to/openoffice/programs/spadmin program, but
I I'm uncertain whether it works for both X and TTF fonts.

I found this article which might be of help:
http://www.mepis.org/node/view/727

But I think it's using too many steps, because IIRC, OpenOffice will use
anything supplied by X, so there isn't any need to "double install", as
the article indicates. The main thing is that whatever directory you place
the font files in, you then need to run mkfontscale and mkfontdir for that
directory, which you can usually do by cd'ing to that directory and
issuing both commands with no parameters (again, IIRC -- I haven't gone
through it for a while). And also add that directory to your X font path,
if it isn't already there.

And, as long as you're looking at your XF86Config file, make sure the
freetype module is being loaded.

Off the top of my head, I don't know where you'll find the font files, but
there's tons of font repositories available on the web.

jed
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