Re: Funny looking Fonts [was Re: OpenOffice.org]

Laurel Jones wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'll look again at the document and send a report. It
>seems to my memory that it was only a few letters that
>formatted weird.
>
>I am actually using MacOSX, does the PDF option still
>apply?
>
>Thanks for your help. Cheers, Laurel
>
>
Ahh, ok, Mac OS X. 2.4 has some rendering issues on OS X that are
currently being resolved - you may want to use 2.2.11 until a new
revision of 2.4 (2.4.2 or 2.4.3) is released. Bug reports are
appreciated, but the font rendering issue is already known and reported,
so please comment only on bugs that are already reported (aka, try to
avoid filing a duplicate).

Unfortunately, the PDF option here would not apply, I believe, since the
PDF support on Mac OS X is (I think) subject to the same rendering bugs
as the display. It's worth a shot, though.

Thanks for using AbiWord!

Ryan
(copying the list so this message is archived)

>--- Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>>Laurel Jones wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Actually, the page looks great when I zoom to 200
>>>
>>>
>>but
>>
>>
>>>it doesn't print well.. ah, the crucial moment of
>>>truth...
>>>
>>>Laurel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Please file a bug with your printer model and other
>>information (sample
>>document would be great) at
>>http://bugzilla.abisource.com/
>>
>>You may be able to use this workaround (which
>>actually provides a nice
>>feature as a bonus): download PDF Creator from
>>http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ (the GPL
>>version) and
>>install it - it will install a fake "printer" into
>>Windows (let me know
>>if you use a different operating system) that will
>>let you make PDF's
>>(Adobe Acrobat files) from any program that can
>>print, including
>>AbiWord. These can then be printed easily with
>>Adobe Reader, or
>>emailed, or put on the web, or whatever - PDF's are
>>versatile.
>>
>>Hope this helps! I have a few more comments
>>below...
>>
>>
>>
>>>--- Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Laurel Jones wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 12:34:07 -0800 (PST)
>>>>>From: Laurel Jones <loljones@yahoo.com>
>>>>>To: abiword-user@abisource.com
>>>>>Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I think that both Open Office and Abiword are
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>great.
>>>>
>>>>All software sucks, some software sucks less ;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Both have their bonuses and both have their
>>>>>limitations. But they're both free! And that is a
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>good
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>thing to have in common.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Anyway, on to a different question:
>>>>>
>>>>>I was typing something using arial the other day
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>and
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>it seemed like the formatting of the font between
>>>>>words was off -
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Things can often look a bit wackey if you have the
>>>>Zoom set to page width.
>>>>Changing the Zoom to something like 100/150/200
>>>>should look a lot better.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>Actually, it's usually just multiples of 100 that
>>look the best (100 and
>>200 - 150 can sometimes show bugs).
>>However, I was under the impression that our display
>>and print quality
>>were actually not too bad in the 2.4 series.
>>
>>
>>
>>>>>Any suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>If you find any specific cases, like letter pairs,
>>or font zooms, or
>>certain formatting, or whatever, please report them
>>to the AbiWord
>>Bugzilla so we have record of them and can more
>>easily resolve them.
>>
>>
>>
>>>>There might be more to it than quirks in the Zoom
>>>>behaviour but at
>>>>least you can quickly try that out first and maybe
>>>>some one can come up
>>>>with a better answer later if that is not the
>>>>problem you are seeing.
>>>>
>>>>Sincerely
>>>>
>>>>Alan Horkan
>>>>
>>>>Inkscape http://inkscape.org
>>>>Abiword http://www.abisource.com
>>>>Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/
>>>>Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org
>>>>
>>>>Alan's Diary
>>>>
>>>>
>>http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Thanks for using AbiWord!
>>
>>--
>>Ryan Pavlik
>>AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
>>www.abisource.com
>>
>>"Optimism is the father that leads to achievement."
>>- Helen Keller
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