Troy Dawson wrote:
> 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

Here is the bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452474

Looks like this affects SL3 as well.  There just aren't as many people using 
openoffice on SL3.

Troy
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