On Tuesday 29 October 2002 20:11, Chris wrote:
Let's see if OpenOffice as installed and polished by Suse is able to impress this business user: The default font in OpenOffice is Times. I type some random text with Times, and it looks like crap because the characters are practically laying on top of each other, and the cursor doesn't sit just after a typed character like it should, but lies sort of right on top of the characters. Changing to 14 point and type some more, the new chars are more widely spaced, but not taller than the 12 pt. 16 pt. Scales up, but 18 pt. Is the same as 16. The spacing scales, so presumably the print looks fine, but this is the same scaling awkwardness that I've experienced in StarOffice/OpenOffice for years (yes I know how to make it just the way I want by a very extensive manual overhaul of the X font installation, but that shouldn't be needed in Suse 8.1 in the year 2002, it should just all be perfect), and which is slowly getting better, but this is still not good enough for the business desktop.
I hear you. You are using 8.1, whereas I am still on 8.0, but I have experienced exactly what you describe. I am really surprised at the terrible font situation in SuSE 8.0 with both OpenOffice and StarOffice 5.2. Some fonts and/or font sizes are displayed so messed up on screen that they are not even usable. If nothing else, you'd think they'd at least have Times, probably the most-used font around, working right. An unbelievable deficiency for SuSE 8.0 in 2002. Fonts are so basic, so essential, you'd think this would be one of the very first things straightened out instead of the last. I am disappointed to learn from you that in 8.1 this depressing situation still persists. Contrastingly, when I use SO in Mandrake, the fonts work great. And don't get me started on using the Filters - Render - Dynamic Text in Gimp where EVERY FONT says it is unavailable! *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ***************************************************