On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:43:43 +0000, Robert Brown wrote:
> Although I can now get bold and normal Arial typefaces, they still
> look a bit odd in OpenOffice (a bit thick), but since it only affects
> Arial and no other font I'll put it down to sonething to do with M$
> not making it's font's all that compatible.
More than likely looking too thick is
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2613 , theres some poxy
potential patent thing. OOo has freetype statically linked to it, and
that ver of freetype was compiled without bytehinting. The other fonts
look ok probably because of their embedded bitmaps for extra nifty
quality at certain fixed sizes.
C.
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