Re: [discuss] Something that change in 2.1 font handling ... a question

[Mary Compton]

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From: "William W. Austin" <wau...@speakeasy.net>
To: <dis...@openoffice.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 2:22 PM
Subject: [discuss] Something that change in 2.1 font handling ... a question

>A loooooooong time ago I was in charge of the care and feeding of some
>fairly large (for the time) computer systems at a commercial type-setting
>house (not many of those left around these days).
>
> As as result I ended up with an interest in the development of various
> typefaces going back several hundred years. Probably as a result, I have
> put together a fairly large collection of truetype fonts over the years
> (several thousand faces).
>
> Recently I updated a linux system (one which I had missed previously) to
> OOo 2.1, and out of curiousity I put together a typeface catalog on it -
> displaying Roman, Italic, Bold and Bold-Italic for each face the various
> families.
>
> Previously when I tried this using oo writer - as late as the 2.0(.x)
> releases - and eventually each of them (the writer windows) had hung or
> become unusable or crashed well before I could get all of them in.
>
> However, last night I was successfully able to create and then print out
> a doc containing 663 different faces (16 faces/page, over 62 pages) with
> no problems at all. But going back through the release notes - and
> looking through the code - I don't see anything about a change to the
> font handling, and that makes me wonder.
>
> The box this is on is a 64-bit athlon dual-core with 2GB of ram, but then
> the memory limitation on OOo is still 256 MB, so that limitation was (and
> is) probably not an issue. Also there were no other changes to the
> system (rpm updates) which might account for it either.
>
> Does anyone know of anything _not_ in the notes which changed in the font
> handling on 2.1? I'm really curious but have not had any luck finding
> it.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> william w. austin wau...@speakeasy.net
> "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
>
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