I've just installed an Open Type font (the sort with the .otf extension) on my computer and OpenOffice2.0 doesn't list it. It's obviously the format, because I tried another and got the same problem.

It seems odd that I can use a font in Gedit, yet not in Writer!

I Googled for a solution, and someone (some time ago) said that the answer was to run padmin (no, not spadmin). I actually found a .padminrc file in my home directory, but it's an old leftover from OpenOffice1, and the program itself no longer exists.

Is using .otf fonts a facility that OO had and lost, or is there another solution?