Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> Ok, for some reason Open Office has decided to substitute "scarab" for "arial" 
> in an MS Word document.  I have a perfectly good Arial font installed, and I 
> can't find anything that says to use Scarab instead.  Any guess why this is 
> happening?  Mandrake 9.2, KDE or Gnome, OO 1.1.0.

OpenOffice overrides several standard fonts with its own by default.  As 
I recall, there's a utility (fontconfig?) that will let you adjust its 
font substitution behavior.