Hello, I found a bug in the fontrendering system of XFree 4.3.0.1 (and earlier) on suse linux 9 as well as 8.2 systems (probably other systems as well).
The problem is that on different displays with different display resolutions fonts seem to be rendered in a slightly wrong size. Of course I checked that the DPI settings of the displays in question are correct for the monitors attached. To my knowledge a certain font (here: Thorndale and Times-New-Roman) in a certain size should be displayed in exaclty the same dimensions on any display that is correctly configured. This is not true at the monent which has strange effects: The effect of this bug is best visible in WYSIWYG applications like Staroffice or Koffice. I noticed it this way myself writing a slide. I wrote it on my linux desktop and then wanted to continue work on my linux laptop. Suddenly linebreaks occured at different points in the text allthough absolute positioned graphics stayed exactly at the place they should be. This can lead to a completely different layout of the document when working on it an another system. This happens in SO as well as in koffice so I don't think its a bug of the applications. Both displays are configured correctly as far as their DPI (reported by xdpyinfo) is concerned. Finally I really measured the displays size and calculated the DPI to ensure the values displayed by xdpyinfo are right on both systems. If you want to take a look at this effect look at the two images below (2x40K). One is a screenshot of a StarOffice Document displayed on my desktop, the other screenshot is from the very same document displayed but not edited on my laptop. Please note the different textformatting due to the bug and note the positions of absolutely placed graphics which remain the same allthough it looks like they moved but its the text that mhas moved. Desktop: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/xfree/xfreebug90x96dpi.jpg Laptop: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/xfree/xfreebug124x124dpi.jpg Any ideas? Thanks Rainer -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Krienke, Universitaet Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, Raum A022 Universitaetsstrasse 1, 56070 Koblenz, Tel: +49 261287 -1312, Fax: -1001312 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Web: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke Get my public PGP key: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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