On Wednesday 09 June 2004 11:11 am, Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 15:59, Chris Carlen wrote: <snippage>
OpenOffice looks like unprofessional crap because the freetype lib in Suse 9.1 doesn't have the bytesode interpreter enabled (I think, which I will know for sure after recompiling it).
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I made a comment about OpenOffice. In Suse 9.1, the truetype fonts are not rendered as cleanly as in Suse 9.1. There is a reason for this, having to do with the freetype lib. So are you going to tell me that I should not expect that my Suse 9.1 box display fonts in OpenOffice that look professional, and not like clunky ugly coarse garbage?
I will fix it. But I am dissatisfied with the quality of the product. I shouldn't have to recompile the font rendering library to get decent looking fonts.
I think the bytecode interpreter may be a thing of the past in freetype2? Distant memory from reading something at the freetype site. But the OO fonts are not as nice on my machines in 9.1 as in 9.0, so if you fix it please drop a line to the list. Not only worse on screen, they don't seem to be printing as well either AFAICT, though since I have gone back to 8.2 at work to get things done, I'm not sure.
Good luck, do please report Best Fergus =================
Sorry guys, I just can't seem to find all this bad font display in OO here! Printout is equally nice to the HP inkjet I use. Now I am using the new X.org software, but I don't think that is or makes any difference. I'm not trying to say I know better than you about how to set all this up, I'm sure I don't, but I did a fresh install of 9.1 with normal updates after and I'm just not seeing any bad font display in anything yet. Regards, Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...