Why not install VirtualBox and then install Hardy as a VM, rather than scrapping the entire OS?
John Jason Jordan wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
