[Hudlug] OpenOffice.org font problem!

[Andy Macdonald]

Chris,

I've noticed that fonts seem to be a problem in X-Free86 and thought about
going into it in depth, but can't see myself doing it this lifetime ... I
suspect the problem may be to do with the way vector fonts (can be used at any
size) get converted to bitmap for actual display. If this is the case, then
increasing the font size may reduce or eliminate the problem ... which wouldn't
help you ... can you use another font?

On Wed, 04 Sep, Chris Lindley  wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks to all the people at the meet last night, who were coming up with
> ideas as to why I'm having this dammed problem!
> 
> To recap,  I've got some amino acid alignments in a document.  They are
> a mixture of red/blue and black text. They are all in Andale mono, and
> should be monospaced and perfectly aligned!
> 
> However they are not!  Changing the colour to just black, means all the
> characters are perfectyl aligned!
> 
> So WTF!!!!
> 
> I've had plenty of feedbackfrom the OpenOffice.org mailing list, but so
> far people have not had any correct idea as to how this is happening
> 
> To try to see if it;'s a Openoffice prob, or Linux, I've installed OOo
> on a windows machine.  The text is perfectly fine there!
> 
> So I assume that this is a problem with XFree86 handling Coloured
> characters fonts!
> 
> I'm afraid I dont; really know where to go next!
> 
> I would appreciate it, if I could email the (small) file to somebody who
> could open it in another Linux OpenOffice installation to see if the
> problem is there!
> 
> My OS is GNU/Linux Debian Sid distro, using XFree86 4.2.  All the
> standard Debian fonts are installed!  I'm not using any font server,
> just the Xserver.  Although I have tried XFSTT, and it was no different!
> (in fact it was worse, as a few bold fonts went walkies!!)
> 
> I;ve tried many different monospaced fonts and all have the same
> problem.
> 
> BTW was well impressed how the Windows version opened the document
> created in the Linux version.  This is a long document with many
> figures, tables and bitmaps.  All seem perfectly fine!
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Chris
> 

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