On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 10:20 -0600, Kenny Gow wrote: > Gregory Gulik wrote: > > > > One of the first differences I saw when I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 was > > when I installed it on a wide screen laptop it was very obvious there > > was more spacing between lines than in FC2. It's much less obvious on a > > standard 4x3 aspect ratio screen. > > > > At first I thought it was just in Mozilla/Firefox but today I tried to > > print out a document I made in OpenOffice just before upgrading and the > > formatting was completely messed up! I had to spend a lot of time > > adjusting line spacings to make everything fit on a page again. This > > was typical of the kinds of annoying changes I saw when upgrading MS > > Office but come on, Fedora should be better than that. > > > > I'd love to file a bug report but I'm not sure which component this is in? > > > > Can someone help me out here? > > > > Am I the only one getting frustrated by the goofy font changes from FC2 > > to FC3??? > > > > You're not the only one. The same fonts I used in FC2 in > Thunderbird and Firefox look more spread out now and it's > a lot less pleasing. I don't know what happened, but it's > annoying and I may have to change my default fonts..... > > --Kenny > > to add to the confusion, i've noticed that i can no longer print out pdf files -- the courier style fonts are so large that they run over the following characters when interspersed with other fonts on a single line. i >think< i can say that the same happens in web pages that i print out. i also notice in firefox in fc3 that i regularly have to look at a word to determine if i'm seeing a r n sequence or a m character. this didn't happen in fc2. john
