Subject: Re: fonts for OpenOffice
To: David Maxwell <david@vex.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/19/2003 06:39:19
In message <20030619044047.GA24620@vex>, David Maxwell writes:
>On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:29:12AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> I have magicpoint, and I've used it. I don't find it to be that great,
>> as a rule, but it's not useful at all when I need Powerpoint for some
>> other reason. (For some of my talks, I'm using some random Windoze box
>> as the display engine. For those, I need either Powerpoint or PDF.)
>
>The html output from Magicpoint is exceptional. (Be sure to enable true
>type font hinting. Anyone know why it's off by default?)
>
>I understand though, that it's not always acceptable to give up screen
>real-estate and have a browser border around your presentation...
>
And browsers display things differently on different-size screens. So --
I thank you for the hint, but let me return to my original question:
are there some better fonts I can install? (It occurs to me that my
problem may also be related to screen size -- my laptop is 1400x1050.)
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)