On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Ross Walkerrswwalker@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 10, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@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.
I Googled and found this page, which hopefully, along with your instructions, will help me and if anyone else references this thread, maybe help them too. http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/