Hi there,

I've added several system-wide true type fonts and they work fine with all programs except OpenOffice 2.3.1 but only when I run it as a normal user.
If I run OpenOffice as root, it sees all the fonts, but when I log out and log in again as a normal user, The program donesn't see the newly added fonts.

My distro is slackware 12, but I don't think it's a slackware problem, since everything works fine when I run OpenOffice as root

Do you have any suggestions? It is driving me nuts!

Bye,
Boris!

Already solved...It was easy...

Please Post solution, so it can be used as reference if anyone else needs help with this problem.

Yes, you're right!
I simply used the OpenOffice 2.3 Printer Administration panel.
There's a Fonts button. Click there and a new window will open. Click the Add. A dialog box asks you what path it will copy the fonts from.
In my case I pointed it at my windows XP NTFS partition, but it didn't work again. Then I copied all the TTF files on my FAT32 partition, and I copied the fonts from there.
The printer administration panes puts the fonts in the $HOME/.openoffice.org2/user/fonts directory

I don't know why I had to do this. I'm pretty sure that fonts were automatically detected in OpenOffice once they had been made system-wide by putting them in /usr/X11/share/fonts.

Bye,
Boris