From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031016 Description of problem: While using Openoffice on (rh9|core2|core3t1) to open a document in times new roman the text is squished together. (OO 1.0 worked) I see a bunch of complaints in syslog: syslog: xfs[562]: FreeType: couldn't open face /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1/timenrm_.pfb: 1 Openoffice developers say: "The syslog says it. FreeType was unable to operate this font. I remember we once examined this font and the only thing I recall is that is was broken. Now the difference to OO.o 1.0 is that newer versions utilize the systems libfreetype and not the own OO.o provided and "hand-tuned" version." Full data including screenshot and data file: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=31808 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run Openoffice > 1.1 2. Open test document at url 3. Look at screen Actual Results: document unreadable Expected Results: document readable Additional info: They blame you. I'm sure you'll blame them. At least look at it first, maybe there is a problem with the system font.
The font refered to in this report is a known broken font. Simply remove this font from the system and the problem should no longer occur. Alternatively, replace the font with a known good version of this font, and the problem should also be fixed. If you continue to experience this problem, please use the X.Org and/or XFree86 mailing lists to discuss the issue with other users and/or developers. Alternatively, you can file a bug report in X.Org bugzilla if you would like X.Org X developers to give an opinion on this issue as well: http://bugs.freedesktop.org "xorg" component. Setting status to "NOTABUG"
If it's a "known broken font", then by definition, doesn't that make it a bug? Shouldn't it be removed from the distribution, so that everyone can benefit from the fix? Isn't this the place to report bugs in the xorg-x11 component AS INSTALLED FROM THE DISTRIBUTION. What you're saying seems to be that since everyone has the same bug, that makes it not a bug.
The timenrm_.pfb font is not part of X.Org X11, so "xorg-x11" component is not the correct place to report bugs in the timenrm_.pfb font. If you are not sure what component to choose for a particular issue you are experiencing however, you can file bugs against the "distribution" component, and an engineer will review the issue and reassign it to the correct component. I have manually confirmed this font is not part of X.Org, however I'm also unable to find it installed on any of 9 different systems I have locally, so I'm not sure if we even ship it or not. Can you run the following command, and indicate the results returned: rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1/timenrm_.pfb This will give the name of the RPM which contains this font. Thanks in advance.
After doing some more research, I have discovered the origin of the font: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1/timenrm_.pfb It comes from the RPM package: XFree86-ISO8859-2-Type1-fonts XFree86-ISO8859-2-Type1-fonts is no longer part of the operating system, and was last shipped in Red Hat Linux 7.1 from what it appears in our internal build trees. So this font was removed from the OS already several years ago. Presumeably, you have upgraded your system from an older OS release, and still had the broken font package installed from the earlier release. I've just added an Obsoletes tag to our xorg-x11-base-fonts subpackage, which will force this old broken font rpm to be automatically uninstalled upon OS upgrades or xorg-x11 updates, however that wont occur until our next set of xorg-x11 rpms are released and people upgrade to them. Since we do not supply this font since Red Hat Linux 7.1, and it is a bug in the fonts themselves, I'm closing this bug as "CURRENTRELEASE", as technically it's been fixed since RHL 7.2 when the fonts were removed. If memory serves correct, judging by the XFree86 and xorg-x11 rpm spec files, there used to be an Obsoletes line forcing the removal of this font rpm before, which seems to have gotten dropped at some point, possibly in the transition from XFree86 to X.org. Nonetheless, I've put it back, so upgrades should remove the font from now on. The side effect of that, is anyone using any of those fonts will no longer have them after upgrades, but I don't see that as a problem because we haven't supported those for several years now, plus they are still available for download from various places should someone require them at all. The interim workaround, is to uninstall the XFree86-ISO8859-2-Type1-fonts package manually with 'rpm -e --nodeps' font rpm.
A bit more information for completeness and accuracy: The XFree86-ISO8859-2-Type1-fonts package was renamed to fonts-ISO8859-2-Type1-fonts in RHL 7.2, since it was not from XFree86.org, and did not contain any XFree86 supplied fonts. It remained in the OS until RHL 7.3 after which it was removed entirely from what I can see. Just the Type1 fonts were removed from the src.rpm So you may need to "rpm -e fonts-ISO8859-2-Type1" as well.