On 5 Jun 2008 at 12:33, NoOp wrote:

> On 06/03/2008 07:25 AM, mike scott wrote:
> > A simple presentation using a custom animation (effect "falling in") 
> > often ends up with invisible text when running 2.4 under ubuntu 
> > (hardy), while it always seems to work ok under XP (also OOo 2.4). 
> > The exact behaviour depends critically on the font selected.
> > 
> > For example, the following trivial slideshow document uses dingbats 
> > as font and on ubuntu the first and last of its 3 lines disappear as 
> > the show runs leaving only the middle line.
> > 
> > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mikeascott//private/junk.odp
> > 
> > (Although the available dingbat characters seem to differ on my XP, 
> > nevertheless, 3 lines of text appear and remain)
...
> Not sure what the problem could be on your system. I tried on 2
> different hardy systems using (U)OOo 2.4 and had no problem. Cool little
> animation BTW :-)

Yes - I liked it; handy for a coffee morning 'drop in' :-)  Thanks 
for looking, anyway. It does seem to depend critically on the exact 
font -- I get various effects, and with some it does work correctly.

Perhaps fortunately, other literature for this event now uses a 
simple serif font, so maybe I'll get away with it when I change. But 
the issue would be still there and probably resurface. I wonder if it 
could be a problem with not-quite-kosher ttf files being rendered 
somehow wrongly (OOo built-in or some system graphics service??)


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