On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Ross Walkerrswwalker@gmail.com wrote: <snip>
OK. I have OpenOffice.org Writer 3.1 open. :-) There is a big problem with the way the .docx file was displayed. It is not pretty. I can see most or all of the words, but they are not where they should be. A formatting problem that I can fix?
Thank you, again, for sharing your time and expertise. Much appreciated! Lanny
Most probably a font problem you can fix.
Look for msttcorefonts there is a spec file you download to build the rpm, pre-requisites are rpm-build, redhat-rpm-config, cabextract (epel), maybe make.
Put the spec file in /usr/src/redhat/SPEC then from that directory run 'rpmbuild -ba msttcorefonts.spec' and after it downloads, extracts and builds the rpm it should be in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch. Just rpm - ivh it from there and save a copy for future use.
Sometimes the font mirrors hang, so if it hangs downloading something just ctrl-c out of it and re-run the rpmbuild.
Ross: Where do I get msttcorefonts and the spec file? Are they in the OO 3.1 files I got yesterday? (If so, I don't see them and I don't think there is any source there). Thank you for all of the above information! If I am home tomorrow, I will give this a shot. I have another user with the dev tools installed on this box, so hopefully have some or most of what I need, ready to try this. Lanny