If you are trying out OpenOffice with X11, then the following tip may be helpful. Supposedly Apple's X11 will let X11 apps access OSX fonts. However, in practice, most don't use xft which is what allows this to work. To get OpenOffice to work with OSX fonts you have to do the following:% cd /Applications/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/share/fonts% /usr/local/bin/fondu /Library/Fonts/.Someone told me this, I can't claim to have come up with this hint on my own.

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I figured others may have been having problems with this. I've not figured out how to get AbiWord to work with OSX fonts yet. However xterm and some applications will work. The following works:% xterm -fa Monaco -fs 11 Editor's note: I have not tested this hint myself as I haven't had a chance to install OpenOffice yet. Hey all, It seems that OpenOffice will by default look in the /Applications/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/share/fonts/truetype directory.

So if you run fondu inside this directory all the converted fonts will be automatically recognised. If not then you can use the spadmin utility as already suggested above.

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However, either way not all of the fonts behave properly. I am getting about half of my fonts not spacing correctly. For example papyrus will have about 10 characters all on top of each other. Any ideas whether this is a bug of OpenOffice or Fondu?

Any way I can check? Thanks Stuart.