Re: [OOo-Hebrew] receiving documents from MS progs

Hi Errol,

You can get the free Hebrew culmus fonts at SourceForge.
See http://sourceforge.net/projects/culmus
These include a few fonts that are standard on Hebrew Windows 
installations, David, Nachlieli, FrankRuehl, as well as a few others.

If you have some true-type fonts that you can install on Linux (legally, 
of course), there is an OOo program called spadmin, which installs fonts 
for use by OOo. (Note that it only recognizes true-type fonts with the 
extension "ttf".) Copy the fonts to a directory on your disk, note where 
you put them, and then cd to <OOo Root>/program. Then type ./spadmin, 
and you should be able to take it from there.

Alan

Errol Sapir wrote:

> Hi Alan
>
> What you are saying sounds logical. Now for my next question. How do I 
> get these fonts into Linux??
>
> Thanks
>
> Errol
>
>
>
> Hi Errol,
>
>
> Some of your problems may be due to missing fonts on your Linux 
> installation. If the Windows program was written using "Guttman Stam" 
> for example, and you don't have that font on your Linux machine, OOo 
> will make a guess about which font to use, but there's no guarantee 
> that it will guess correctly.  Sometimes the font it chooses doesn't 
> have Hebrew at all, so the text will be completely unintelligble. So 
> the first thing I would do is check the fonts being used, and if 
> necessary, install them on your Linux machine.
>
> You can test for this problem by modifying the document on Windows to 
> use a Hebrew font that exists on both machines, open the document on 
> Linux, and see if there's any improvement.
>
> Since you're using OOo 2.0.2, as you wrote in your Hebrew email, you 
> also might check to see if there's any improvement in OOo 2.0.3.
>
> If you still have problems, it may be due to flaws in OpenOffice's MS 
> filters. In that case, every problem must be examined seperately. You 
> can report bugs at http://bugzilla.openoffice.org.il/. But please 
> first check for missing fonts, and try 2.0.3.
>
> Alan
>
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