Jon Clark wrote:
> Eva Myers wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:48:33AM -0500, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>
>>> Eva Myers wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>> After the freetype packages were updated this morning on my SL44
>>>> systems, I noticed that openoffice wasn't working any more - all
>>>> documents come up blank.  The versions of these packages I have are
>>>> shown below:
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Looking into this,
>>> Is it only OpenOffice affected?  Are other programs, such as firefox,
>>> having the same problem?
>>>
>> Firefox "looks different" with pages appearing in a larger "curvier"
>> font, but AFAIK only OpenOffice is actually misbehaving.
>> Eva.
>>
> I can corroborate this.  A number of SL 4.4 users here have complained
> that openoffice is 'not working any more'.  When openoffice files are
> opened, text is missing from the display.  (Not all text is missing, I
> think that it is only text written in the default font - I can't tell
> you what that font is though.)  Using my SL 4.4. system, I have also
> noticed that some firefox text looks different and can also report that
> Thunderbird has changed the default font in which I write emails.
> 
> Regards,
> Jon
> 

I have just verified that on a standard RHEL 4 machine, with no Scientific 
Linux stuff, that this same problem is happening.  So this is clearly upstream. 
  I am looking for a bugzilla report right now.
Troy
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