On 2007. 12. 14., Friday 00:10, Dave Howorth wrote: > On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 18:57 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In case of OOo I got bad results so far > > only when using "Arial black" and also set to bold. Can you please try > > what you get if you do the following: create a new document, only with > > the word "Download" in it. Set it to "Arial Black", size 12, export to > > pdf, then look at the pdf file with at least 200% magnification. > > What I get is "Downl oa d", ie. there are extra spaces before and after > > "oa". Funnily, if I print "load" only, then it's fine. > > Does anyone else get the same result? > > Tom > > It looks fine on this system - 10.2 x86-64, OOo 2.0.4, Acroread 7.0.8
Thank you for checking. Could you please send me the odt and pdf files in a private e-mail? I would like to check which step goes wrong on my PC. > Everything you've described screams broken font metrics at me. There's > most likely a file with character widths etc that tells whatever library > ooo uses to create pdfs how much space to add. And yours has errors for > some reason. Hmm. Is there such a file, containing metrics - besides the ttf file(s)? I checked the arial black ttf file and it is identical (binary) to what I found under win2k. If font metrics are broken then shouldn't this also influence rendering on the screen? But everything looks fine on the screen, no matter what font size and magnification I set. > So all I can suggest is to double-check the installation sources, use > whatever tools you have (xfontsel, maybe?) to double-check exactly what > works and what doesn't (what registry is the font you're having problems > with and what encoding? or maybe ooo uses some different mechanism!?), I checked the installation sources. Most of what I have is standard stuff. The only font related things I had from somewhere else were imlib2 and imlib2-loaders from the Packman repository. I downgraded them to the standard opensuse version but that didn't help. I'm going to install opensuse into a virtual machine with all standard settings to investigate further but it will take time... I don't understand what you mean by "registry". Encoding should not matter because all I'm using are ASCII characters. My locale is set to British English. Tom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
