[plug] Open Office

[James Elliott]

Thanks Craig

I will let you know how I get on

Regards

James Elliott
Ravensthorpe Computers
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Ringer" <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Open Office


> > Unfortunately I still have font problems - mainly some fonts are 
> > _ugly_. Bookman and New Century Schoolbook are awful, while others 
> > like Symbol, OpenSymbol, Courier, Charter and Palatino are nice. It 
> > seems to ignore the hinting on some fonts. My pet hate is that it 
> > doesn't have a proper (GIMP-style) font selector so you can't for 
> > example pick adobe-bookman from urw-bookman. Consequently I can't even 
> > find out _which_ Bookman, etc its using. It also only wants to see a 
> > tiny selection of the fonts I have installed.
> 
> OK sorry for the reply-to-self but found some info digging through OO.o 
> FAQs:
> 
> http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html
> 
> Don't know yet if it'll fix the issues but its probably a good starting 
> point for anybody here having OO.o font trouble.
> 
>