On Thursday 05 June 2008 20:58:27 mike scott wrote: > 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??)
I'm getting three lines of text, but no animation. Lenny. OOo 2.3.1. Lisi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
