I have recently installed OO2.0 on FreeBSD5.4. It seems that the display size is rather restricted.
The default on my 19" 1600x1200 display is far too small; but I've found Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->View->UserInterface->scaling which when set to 130% (the maximum value accepted) gives a result that is almost comfortable. On an earlier version of OO this was not so restrictive and I found figures in the range 140% to 160% produced a nice result. But altering this Scaling seems to also affect the sizes in the work spaces so that a centimetre in a drawing displays as around one and a half centimetres. Is there some way to control these independently? (It seems all programmers are young, blessed with 20/20 vision and desperate to get a maximum number of characters on screen without any respect for visual comfort or those of us who are aging.) But a much worse problem is the ghastly hard-to-read non-serif fonts popularised by Microsoft and used in menus, help, etc. In the same set of options I can mark "Use system font for user interface", but this seems to do nothing and in any case I don't know to what "system font" refers. I had expected that replacing the "interface User" font in Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->Fonts would deal with this problem but it has no effect on menus, help etc. Was this the intent? Does it work on other platforms? What is the intended purpose of the pseudo font? Can anyone enlighten me? Malcolm Kay --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
