X11 1.1.3 resolves issues with OpenOffice.org

It appears that X11 1.1.3 resolves a previously reported issue that prevents launching of OpenOffice.org. However, Shaun McDonald of the OpenOffice.org Mac porting team lets us know that there still may be a few problems related to corrupt fonts:

"We have however been getting a handful of reports from users that they are still getting problems. On further investigation it appears that they either haven't installed the update (X11 1.1.3), or have some faulty fonts cached somewhere.

"You know that there is a font issue when you crash and the crash log says in thread 2, something about Font loading."

As such, users should look in the following two locations, and remove all items if they are having problems launching OpenOffice under X11 1.1.3:

• OpenOffice.org 2.0/Contents/MacOS/share/fonts/truetype [This is a directory within the OpenOffice.org application package itself. Control-click (right-click) on the OpenOffice.org icon, and select "Show Package contents" then navigate to this location]
• ~/Library/Application Support/OpenOffice.org 2.0/user/fonts

You can then add fonts back one by one or in groups, re-launching OpenOffice.org each time in order to isolate the culprit.

Feedback? Late-breakers@macfixit.com.

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