[Hudlug] OpenOffice.org font problem!

[Chris Lindley]

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 16:39, Andy Macdonald wrote:
> 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

Yeah, fonts in X can be a complete nightmare!!  The two classic problems
iwth X seem tobe fonts and printing!  CUPS seems to have eased the lack
of printing standard, although yet to accepted universally.  When will
someone do something similar with fonts!!

> 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?

The main answers I got from the OpenOffice.org mailing list, was that it
was something to do with the bitmapped fonts.  Yet all the workarounds I
was given tended not to have any effect!

I've used all the monospaced fonts I have (Lucida mono, courier, courier
New, etc..) and these all gave the same (bad) results!!


Cheers
Chris

> 
> 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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