From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 22:45:09 EDT
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 12:29, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> --- Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com> wrote: > On
> Tue, 2002-10-01 at 13:45, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:10:40 +0100 (BST)
> > > > From: "[iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar"
> > > > <hippietrail@yahoo.com>
> > > > To: AbiWord <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> > > > Subject: OSNews RedHat 8 review & AbiWord
> > > >
> > > > I haven't read the whole review yet but notice
> > > > this screenshot which includes AbiWord with some
> > > > pointed comments typed into it:
> > > >
> > > >
> http://osnews.beosjournal.org/img/1842/redhat4.jpg
> > > >
> > > > Is the numlock problem known? Sounds like other
> > > > too-low-level keyboard code problems.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway it's a bit negative so give it a look.
> > >
> > > There was a bug that complianed about the chunky
> > > fonts problem in the redhat beta, i dont know what
> > > RedHat have done to break abiword.
> > >
> > > It seemed odd to me that RedHat was using
> > > something like "Nimbus Roman" as the default font
> > > rather than Times New Romam or Arial.
>
> I wonder if they've done their own hack to "fix" the
> AbiWord fonts in 8.0? Anyone got 8.0 yet?
> (I'd love it if somebody has a CD burner and an
> airmail stamp) </begging>
>
Hi Andrew. I'll make a couple of copies and send one set on to you.
I've finally finished downloading them.
> > > I cannot find the bug report, it is filed
> > > somewhere in bugzilla under linux...
> >
> > The best retort we can come up with is to post the
> > 1.1.1 release this Friday with yummy Xft goodness.
>
> Is this 1.1.1 based on STABLE with Xft? The new
> with-tables HEAD-based stuff will be 2.x.x right?
No. This is called 1.1.1 but is HEAD with xft and tables.
>
> > OOo looks dreadful here (on RedHat null) - the fonts
> > are perhaps worse than the old Abi fonts. Unlike OOo
> > we look like we even fit into the RedHat destkop. If
> > we don't turn this author's head with all of our
> > busywork and eye candy, we can always flame him/her
> > or go mope in a corner :)
>
> By the way, I've reopened the numlock problem she
> mentions. Anyone seen this lately? Is RedHat known
> to patch AbiWord at all?
Not much I think. I suspect they're our old un-anti-aliased Type 1
fonts. If you have a laptop or a really good monitor they do look pretty
bad.
They're not bad on blury monitors though :-)
Cheers
Martin
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