[Hudlug] OpenOffice.org font problem!

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 04 Sep 2002 3:35 pm, you 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

Don't know if I've enough skill to come up with real answers, but I'm 
perfectly willing to try.  Send me a sample.

Anne