-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Danny Tholen wrote: | Hi Gwenole, | I always found the TTF fonts in openoffice.org terribly ugly since after build 638 or so. Today I figured out it was because | they _statically_ link against freetype2, without ByteCodeInterpreter. I always rebuild freetype because of this issue | because on my screen/resolution it really produces unreadable and ugly ttf fonts. After rebuilding OO.org with the BCI defined, | it looks beautiful. | | So the question: is it possible to build oo.org so that it dynamically links against freetype2? This would increase the | lifetime of my athlon considerably as I do not have to keep rebuilding:). | Otherwise: here is another PLF candidate (it becomes busy there). | | Danny |
I am not sure it is so simple, because I have done some testing on combinations of OO.o641C/OO.o641D/OO.o1.0 and Mandrake 8.0/8.1/8.2. Here is what I have found: 1)Spell checking does not work in OO.o641c/641d/1.0 in the writer on my Duron 800 running Mandrake 8.2. Spell-checking does work in calc on all of these. Spell-checking works fine in everything (AFAICR) on OO.o641c/OO.o1.0 on Mandrake8.1 Has anyone else seen this? 2)Fonts: - -Look GREAT on Mandrake8.1/OpenOffice1.0 - -SUCK to the same degree on Mandrake 8.2 with OO.o641c/OO.o641d and OO.o1.0 - -Are almost unuseable on Mandrake 8.1/OpenOffice.org641c (strane, didn't notice this at the time ...) In 8.1/8.2 I was using the same install of OpenOffice on a shared /opt for 641c and 1.0, and 8.2/641d is a rebuilt rpm of OpenOffice.org-1.0-0.1mdk.src.rpm on 8.2. I would like to retest this, because I was quite tired when I did these. Anyway, screenshots for 8.1 and 8.2, along with the test documents can be found at: http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/openoffice/ In case you saw the screenshots, and are wondering what fonts are where, the first paragraph is Verdana, the headings on the table are Thorndale, the left column is Times New Roman, right column is Arial and last paragraph is MS Comic SANS. Dynamic linking agains a lot of libraries (including freetype2) would definitely help though, and probably drastically reduce the size of the package, and probably help reduce memory consumption. But I have another request ... getting the Mozilla address book integration working, so I can access our LDAP directory from OO.o. (maybe I will just run official builds ... since this seems to be a problem). Buchan - -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE80Z/yrJK6UGDSBKcRAr0JAJ9s7yBYjkPunMwVPCBl0COkPCCGFgCgpixP CHJKSH5921fDzR6S/aXapJA= =vs6p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
