On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 23:31 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 02:43:53PM +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 11:47 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > I just tested with a simple lorem ipsum document with Liberation Serif; > > > page count went down from 24 to 22 after applying the patch > > > > Comparison with MSWord will be good to do too, with/without the "use > > extra leading" compatibility option. > > MSWord is not known for its sane handling of font metrics, and I have > been told recent (2007-) broke it even further.
Hum, ending up with .docs, .docxs, .rtfs that layout even further from their original how-they-layout-in-word, while pre-existing .odts and so forth also change layout sounds somewhat worrying :-). We may have to cook up a "use-old-school-metrics" compatibility flag or something like that along the lines of some similar flags we already have. I might try and play around the area. C. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice