On Sunday 03 April 2005 18:15, P Jones wrote: > > I am a teacher and have a lot of slides developed in OO while using FC2. > > I upgraded my home machine to FC3 and all text in slides is different: > > interspacing is bigger and text falls off the slide. At work I still > > have FC2 and it is ok. I can project, any new thing I do is not > > portable, or have to re-edit dozens of slides!!! My work is jeopardized. > > I have not found a way to configure this, Is there one? > > FC3 OO version: 1.1.2 but also 1.1.3 , kernel 2.6.10-1.770 > > FC2 OO version 1.1.2 same kernel > > Its the same file, created under OO Impress, with Nimbus Roman 9 , > > single interspace as main font. Also happens with others like Avant > > Garde, New Roman etc. > > And it is not only one but all files: other people files too. Just > > opening it in a machine with FC2 (this one at work) and another with FC3 > > (my laptop or home) and there you go: interspacing at more than 100% > > (132% or so if I remember well): All text boxes all text slides > > everything overflows all margins. > > Of course, the material I'm talking about is a live material and if my > > editing tool is OO, ....I am thinking about retiring FC3 and re-install > > FC2.. Unless someone comes up with a solution, I just can't afford to > > invest hours and hours to arrange formatting, what will happen in FC4 ? > > There has to be something somewhere to configure it!! > > Thanks for any comments! > > -- > > Virginia Escuder Cabañas > > Hi Virginia; > > I've redirected your email to the list. I had a noticeable problem > with OOo in FC3 as well. Spacing around the default font, which I > believe to be Luxi Sans, is significantly different than it was in FC2 > and FC1. For some bizarre reason, and I've repeated this on three > different machines, much of the problem goes away if you use GNOME as > your desktop. XFCE doesn't suffer from the problem either. In KDE, > font spacing in the menus and the applications is bad. > > What I've done to get around the problem is to switch to GNOME, which > I find very tolerable in FC3, and in Ubuntu Hoary, which has GNOME > 2.10, it's become my favorite desktop. Then, as much as I like the > Luxi fonts for interface fonts, I've switched to the Bitstream Vera > fonts for interface. Vera Sans is a lot wider than Luxi Sans, but very > readable at small font sizes (I like 8 pt. for my desktop and web > browsing default size). > > I recall some thread somewhere mentioning that the Luxi font's spacing > had in fact changed, so it wasn't a Fedora issue so much as an > upstream issue, but I could be completely wrong there. > > Anyway, try switching to GNOME and then open your OOo documents from > there. Does the problem go away? > > By the way, the other issue I had was that installing the MS Web Fonts > caused OOo to consider Arial to be the default font. Not sure why that > happened either. So I uninstalled them and the problem went away. I > had no font issues on FC1, and I don't know what has changed, but I'm > going to jump into the FC4 beta cycle with the next test release, and > hopefully things will be better. > > -P Very odd, I just started using FC3 a few days ago and I prefer KDE, I was installing the msttcorefonts along with some other fonts I had downloaded and my font settings "flaked out", for lack of a better term. I have been working with the settings but still haven't figured out what happened nor have I managed to return them to what they initially were. I do not think this is a KDE issue as I was using 3.4 with PCLinuxOS with no issue, and Kubuntu had a font issue of it's own it seemed. If FC4 does correct this or it never occurs if you do a fresh install, please post something to this effect as I will be immediately jumping on that test cycle as well.
