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

Thank you again. I do have legal MS fonts as I have a legal copy of Windows XP 
and Office. I'll try importing both the Culmus and Office fonts when I get 
time on my computer later tonight.
Errol
On Sunday 03 September 2006 14:38, you wrote:
> 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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