Re: [Cooker] Poor Visual Quality of OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-05-07 Thread danny
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Buchan Milne wrote: > > Agreed, but installing a freetpye libarary with the bytecode interpreter > enabled is not going to help if OpenOffice uses it's own copy of > freetype rather than the system's. Yes, but fixed in 2mdk according to Gwenole. > > Also, was the bytecode i

Re: [Cooker] Poor Visual Quality of OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-05-06 Thread Gwenole Beauchesne
yOn Sun, 5 May 2002, Buchan Milne wrote: > The chances are that this is due to using different versions of > freetype. This will hopefully be fixed when OpenOffice is linked against > the system freetype, hopefully in -2mdk and hopefully soon. Yes, in -2mdk. No, our system freetype2 library has

Re: [Cooker] Poor Visual Quality of OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-05-06 Thread Danny Tholen
On Sunday 05 May 2002 07:34 pm, you wrote: > The chances are that this is due to using different versions of freetype. > This will hopefully be fixed when OpenOffice is linked against the system > freetype, hopefully in -2mdk and hopefully soon. hmm..yes and no. It is because of no bytecode inter

Re: [Cooker] Poor Visual Quality of OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-05-05 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 05 May 2002 16:59, Nelson Bartley wrote: > Heyo, > > I'm using a vanilla install of cooker Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 > 20020503 16:13 and I've installed OO.o 1.0, > OpenOffice.org-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm and I must say the visual quality of > the program is absolutely poor to pathetic. I've a

Re: [Cooker] Poor Visual Quality of OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-05-05 Thread Buchan Milne
I started a previous thread on this a few days ago, and you should note that it even affects "decent" fonts. You can see some of my screenshots at http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/openoffice You will note from the screenshots that the appearance is much better under Mandrake 8.1 than 8.2 (wit

Re: [Cooker] Poor Visual Quality of OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-05-05 Thread Edward Tandi
Yes, I have observed this with all versions of OpenOffice that I have tried. I think one of the things SUN do with StarOffice is give it some decent TrueType fonts (compare under <*Office>/share/fonts/truetype/). Unfortunately, due to copyright on fonts etc, good fonts costs money which is pro

[Cooker] Poor Visual Quality of OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-05-05 Thread Nelson Bartley
Heyo, I'm using a vanilla install of cooker Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020503 16:13 and I've installed OO.o 1.0, OpenOffice.org-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm and I must say the visual quality of the program is absolutely poor to pathetic. I've attached a small .png screen cap of it, using courier font and