Hi
I installed BharateeyaOo (OpenOffice 1.1.4 Tamil) from the C-DAC-CD exactly
following the instructions in the CD in a system having Mandriva LE 2005 which
has Gnome 2.8. It got installed without any problem. The menu and tool bars are
displayed in tamil. However, when I use the tamil ttf fonts, only some junk or
english characters are typed.
Before luanching Openoffice, I changed the keyboard layout to Tamil in Gnome. I
have also installed JRE 1.5 and made necessary changes in the .bash_profile
file. I used the "spadmin" tool to change the default fonts in Boo.
The windows ttf fonts Ks_kamban and Ks_Ivvayar are working fine. I wonder why
the C-DAC and other ttf tamil fonts are not working?
Did anybody face similar problem with ttf fonts availabe in the c-dac-CD? If it
needs any additional tweaks let me know.
R.Dhanagopal
Below are Install Instructions which I followed
To Install JRE 1.5:
Step01. Download "jre-1_5_0_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin" &
"fontconfig.properties" from CD and save in a directory on your machine.
Step02. Go to the directory in which you have saved the files.
Step03. Change permission for "jre-1_5_0_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin"
$ chmod a+x jre-1_5_0_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin
Step04. login as root
$ su
Step05. Execute the binary file.
$ ../jre-1_5_0_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin
JRE will get installed in /usr/java/jre1.5.0_02/ directory.
Step06. Copy GIST-TMOTChanakya font file to lib/fonts directory under Java
install directory
$ cp (Full path in which Fonts.tar.gz saved)/Fonts/*.ttf
/usr/java/jre1.5.0_02/lib/fonts
Step07. Copy property files "fontconfig.properties" files to lib directory
under Java install directory
$ cp ../fontconfig.properties
/usr/java/jre1.5.0_02/lib
Step08. Append following lines to your login's ".bash_profile" file
export PATH=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_02/bin:$PATH
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_02/
Or
Add the above lines to "/etc/profile" file
Step09. logout as root
$exit
To Install Bharateeya Open office:
Step01. Download "OpenOffice.org-Tamil-Linux-1.1.4.tar.gz" from CD
and save in a directory on your machine.
Step02. Logout from the session and login again.
Before logging select Tamil as interface language and Gnome as
Desktop environment. There are options for selecting language
and desktop environment in login window( where the system asks
for login and password), see "language" & "session" menus at bottom.
Step03. Select Tamil Keyboard Layout for input.
Launch "Keyboard Preferences" from
Applications->Preferences->Keyboard.
Under Layouts option you can select layout for Tamil.
Step04. Go to the directory in which you have saved tar.gz file.
Step05. Uncompress the tar ball
$tar -zxvf OpenOffice.org-Tamil-Linux-1.1.4.tar.gz
On uncompress you will get a new directory "normal"
Step06 Set the appropriate permission.
$chmod -R 555 ../normal
Step07. Make "normal" directory as working directory.
$cd ../normal
Step08. Execute "run.sh"?.(There was no such file. So I used the install)
$./run.sh
Step09. After successful installation of BOO execute the "spadmin" tool from
program directory under Bharateeya Open office installation. The tool
will help in installing new fonts for BOO.
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