OpenOffice and JDK

[Kevin B. Hendricks]

Hi,

Sometimes OOo can not find the correct fonts and that results in a poor 
looking display.  You can use the "spadmin" program that comes with OOo to 
add fonts (use Windows or Unix .ttf files if you like) that OOo will then use 
if you like.  You can also enable font replacement to make the user interface 
font become anti-aliased as RedHat/YDL3 has done for OOo 1.0.2.

BTW:  If you are using YDL 3.0, I could use some testers for the OOo 1.1 Beta2 
build I just placed on the YDL mirrors (check out ftp.yellowdoglinux.com or 
one of its mirrors and look in software/openoffice/

Try grabbing and installing OOo_1.1Beta2_LinuxPPC_installer.tar.gz

It will only work properly on YDL 3.0 out of the box since I have moved my 
main build machine to YDL 3 which has glibc-2.3.1.  If you have an older YDL 
2.X you will need to upgrade to glibc-2.3.2 before you will be able to use 
it.

There is also the latest Blackdown version of the JDK 1.3.1 which should work 
fine with a gcc-3.2.X compiled Mozilla and with OpenOffice.org.

Feedback on installation and testing welcomed.  if all is well, OOo 1.1Beta2 
will probably be announced early next week.

Kevin Hendricks

Porting Co-Lead for OpenOffice.org
and PPC Linux Port Maintainer