Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 29242
Andale Sans UI in drop-down list
Last modified: 2013-08-13 11:50:00 UTC
The readme.txt file states quite clearly: "In OpenOffice.org you can change the font used for screen display and printing by replacing it with a different font installed on your system. This can be done using the font replacement function. Choose Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Font Replacement to access this function. "To change the font of the OpenOffice.org user interface, you have to replace the default font "Andale Sans UI" with another font and mark the "always" setting for this replacement. Yet the "Andale Sans UI" font does not appear in the drop-down list. I found two times in the issues collection where this issue has been resolved... one 'solution' was to manually type in "Andale Sans UI", and select a suitable replacement. The other was to simply go to the 'accessibility' section, and check "Use system font for user interface". No reference on how to make this change appears in the help file, unless you spend the time searching through all of the 'options' section. And nothing in the help file makes reference to manually typing the name of a font, either. Wouldn't it be fairly simple to just edit the 'readme.txt' file, instead of leaving the instructions as they are?
reassigned to bh
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request. The Issue you raised is currently 'Unconfirmed' pending review, but has not been updated within the last 3 years. Please consider re-testing with one of the latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been addressed. Either use the recent stable version: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html or consider trying the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing): http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/ Please report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as necessary - otherwise it may be Resolved as Invalid in the future. You may also wish to search for (and note) any duplicates of this Issue that may have advanced further by checking the Issue Tracker: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi Many thanks, Andrew Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of: ~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~ http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".
I rechecked this issue in Apache OpenOffice 4.0.0 (and AOO 3.4.0) on Windows 7. 1. readme.txt no longer mentions font replacement. 2. On my Windows 7 system, Andale Sans UI is not installed. When I go to Tools > Options > OpenOffice > Fonts, check "Apply replacement table" and inspect the drop-down list "Font", Andale Sans UI is not to be found (as expected, since the font is not installed). 3. Press F1 to open help, select the Find tab, search "font replacement" and select "Fonts" from the search results. The instructions for the drop-down lists "Font" and "Replace with" say: "Enter or select the name of the [font] (...)". In other words, they say that you can enter a font name. So has this issue been overtaken by events? Should it be closed?