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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 19 02:44:57 -0800 2005 ------- I'll try to express myself better... Postscript defines 35 "standard fonts" with standard names (such as Times, Palatino, ecc...) On Linux hosts these fonts are available as URW fonts and as such they do not follow the naming convention of postscript (for instance they are called URW Palladio L, etc.) Since adhering to standard names is important to most users, most Linux distribution employ fontconfig so that font aliases are defined. For instance "Palatino" is defined to be an alias for "URW Palladio L". In this way, if one opens a document prepared on a windows host and containing text in Palladio, it is rendered correctly. As of Openoffice 1.1.x, Openoffice was dealing with this correctly... When a text contained something to be rendered in a standard postscript font, the URW font was used (following fontconfig directions), and the font was rendered properly with antialiasing. As of Openoffice 2.0.x, Openoffice uses the URW font (following fontconfig directions), but does not do the antialiasing. Unfortunately this is quite bad: on low resolution screens some fonts when not-antialiased look really orrible (palatino is precisely an example) and make operators think that there is something wrong with the application, or that unix platforms are simply crappy. I regard this as a regression since things were working fine as of 1.1.x. Thanks for your patience. This bug may look rather low priority, but please understand that it is necessary to please users in the font rendering. They often look at this more than at any other functionality, and if it is low quality they start crying loud they want MS back. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
