I have been using Intrepid x86_64 since last December. At first I didn't notice any significant problems, but lately I have been working on a book that requires extensive use of characters not found on a standard US keyboard. I have been tearing my hair out getting correct print output. Sometimes the screen is correct and the printout is wrong and sometimes both are wrong.
For example, I have characters appear on the screen and fail to appear in the printout. Today, for example, someone looking at a page of my book noted that I had left out an open quote. Then we noticed another missing open quote a couple lines later. And another a few lines later. Sure enough, they appear on screen but fail to print. In other cases OOo substitutes another font for certain glyphs on screen, but fails to print them. And when I take the text and paste it into Abiword, KWord or Scribus the glyphs drop out on screen as well as in the printout. This happens with all fonts I have installed. I.e., it is not a font problem. When I create a stacked formula in OOo Writer the brackets look OK on screen and in the printout, except they are very faint. To overcome the faintness I applied bold to the brackets. That makes the brackets appear superfat on screen, and their width on screen varies according to the number of items in the stack - the more items the wider the bracket on screen. Yet most print with a bold bracket. However, some print with one side of the bracket superfat. I have attached a PDF showing what I see on screen. The PDF was exported from OOo, so OOo is exporting the screen view, even though when I print the page from OOo most of the brackets print OK. [Edit: Ack, attachment won't go through. Deleted and resending.] I can open a brand new document and replicate the problems, so it is not a corrupted document. At first I blamed OOo 3.0.1, but just now I opened the document in 2.4.1 which is still installed on my Intrepid desktop. The screen view problems with the brackets are the same. Yet, strangely, when I printed a page the incorrect parts were different, but fonts were still being substituted and glyphs were substituted and/or dropped out. I just tried the March 26 beta of Jaunty, hoping that the problems would be resolved and all I would have to do is wait for Jaunty. Sadly the OOo on Jaunty is the same release that I am using on Intrepid, and it has exactly the same problems with the document. At this point my #1 suspect is Gnome. I say that because screen views are affected as well as printing. But what do I know? I filed a bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-junicode/+bug/351080. But so far none of the Jaunty developers have even looked at it. However, at least one user from the OOo user e-list has confirmed my findings. I don't know what to do, but the present situation is not tolerable. I must have a word processor that works dependably with all the funny glyphs, tables, frames and stuff that I use. I hate like hell the thought of ripping out Intrepid and reinstalling Hardy (at least two days of work to reinstall all my programs, many of which required tweaks to get them working - tweaks which I don't remember how to do). I'm to the point where I'm thinking of scrapping the past two weeks of work and starting over using InDesign on Windows. I am really not happy. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
