From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Epiphany/1.2.4 Description of problem: If you press help in OpenOffice.org and search for fonts, you'll get instrictions telling you how to install fonts in UNIX. These instructions will tell you to use a tool called spadmin, which seems to be a tool used to add fonts in openoffice.org. Here's the text for adding fonts: "Adding Fonts: You can integrate additional fonts in the OpenOffice.org software. Fonts which you integrate are available exclusively to the OpenOffice.org software and can be used with various Xservers without your having to install them there. To make the fonts available to other programs as well, proceed as usual by adding the fonts to your Xserver. The OpenOffice.org software can display and print out PostScript Type1 fonts as well as TrueType fonts (including TrueType Collections). To integrate additional fonts in the OpenOffice.org software, proceed as follows: 1.Go to the {installpath}/program directory. 2.Enter: ./spadmin 3.Click Fonts. 4.The dialog lists all fonts added for the OpenOffice.org software. You can select and remove fonts using the Remove button or add new fonts with the Add button. 5.Click Add. The Add Fonts dialog appears. 6.Enter the directory from which you want to add the fonts. Press the ... button and select the directory from the path selection dialog or enter the directory directly. 7.A list of the fonts from this directory appears. Select the fonts you want to add. To add all the fonts, click Select All. 8.With the Create soft links only check box you can determine whether the fonts are to be copied into the OpenOffice.org directory or only symbolic links are to be created there. If the fonts to be added are on a data medium that is not always available (such as a CD-ROM), you must copy the fonts. 9.Click OK. The fonts will now be added. In the case of a Server Installation, the fonts are installed in that installation if possible. If the user has no write access rights, the fonts will be installed in the corresponding Workstation Installation so that only the user who installed them can access them." These insctructions are clearly wrong, as the fedora core 2 packages of openoffice.org don't even include spadmin. To my knowledge openoffice.org uses fontconfig for fonts. The help file should help users the fedora way. The same goes for instructions on how to remove fonts. They too are wrongly telling the user to use spadmin. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-1.1.1-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open an openoffice.org application like writer. 2. Press Help > Contents. 3. Search for fonts. 4. Read about adding fonts in UNIX. Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126701 ***