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From: "William W. Austin" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 2:22 PM
Subject: [discuss] Something that change in 2.1 font handling ... a question
A loooooooong time ago I was in charge of the care and feeding of some
fairly large (for the time) computer systems at a commercial type-setting
house (not many of those left around these days).
As as result I ended up with an interest in the development of various
typefaces going back several hundred years. Probably as a result, I have
put together a fairly large collection of truetype fonts over the years
(several thousand faces).
Recently I updated a linux system (one which I had missed previously) to
OOo 2.1, and out of curiousity I put together a typeface catalog on it -
displaying Roman, Italic, Bold and Bold-Italic for each face the various
families.
Previously when I tried this using oo writer - as late as the 2.0(.x)
releases - and eventually each of them (the writer windows) had hung or
become unusable or crashed well before I could get all of them in.
However, last night I was successfully able to create and then print out
a doc containing 663 different faces (16 faces/page, over 62 pages) with
no problems at all. But going back through the release notes - and
looking through the code - I don't see anything about a change to the
font handling, and that makes me wonder.
The box this is on is a 64-bit athlon dual-core with 2GB of ram, but then
the memory limitation on OOo is still 256 MB, so that limitation was (and
is) probably not an issue. Also there were no other changes to the
system (rpm updates) which might account for it either.
Does anyone know of anything _not_ in the notes which changed in the font
handling on 2.1? I'm really curious but have not had any luck finding
it.
Thanks
--
william w. austin [email protected]
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
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