Openoffice

[Robert]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:57:59 -0500
Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It has been a long time since I tried to install Openoffice from
> packages, but I would prefer not to have to build it.
> 

> 
> By the way I tried Abiword and could not read in a plain text file - 
> one with just regular text created with vi.   It made some irregular
> blob in the middle of the page that looked like all the characters 
> mushed together.  
> 
> Otherwise I would be using that and ignoring Openoffice.
> 
Jerry

I am a user of AbiWord. Try installing /usr/ports/x11-fonts/webfonts to
solve the above problem and then fuggedabout openoffice.

Robert