Subject: Re: fonts for OpenOffice
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/20/2003 11:56:07
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On Thursday, 19 June 2003 at  6:39:19 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 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.)

Hmm.  I don't have an answer, but I hope somebody does: I have the
same problem.  My laptop also does 1400x1050, but I don't think that's
relevant, since I connect to OHPs at 1024x768.

Greg=20
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