An odd one. I made some invitations using an ornate font, laid out on a
landscape page in Draw (OOo 3.2/ubuntu 10.04). Some text (in a text box)
was font size 26pt, bold selected.
All looked well on-screen. However, when printed (either to paper or pdf
printer) characters following a space appeared much bolder than the
remainder - the effect was objectionable.
A little experimentation shows that
* the 'after space' characters are probably correct - it's the others
that aren't bold enough. IMBW
* It only seems to affect certain fonts (I've tried Amazone BT and URW
Chancery L, which show the problem; Times Roman does not)
* it only occurs for a landscape page - portrait works just fine.
Presumably something in the font render doesn't like rotating the text.
* Altering font size doesn't seem to affect the problem (within the
limits I've tried).
Exporting as PDF (rather going through the print dialogue) is fine too
(which is my work-round for the time being).
Final note, because after writing the above, I put a duplicate of the
text in a text box and rotated it 90 degrees. Shows that bold text /not/
rotated during printing is OK, text rotated during printing isn't bold
enough except characters following a space. Weird.
Anyone else met this one?
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Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England
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