Hello, sorry this is a little lengthy but the bug is a little hard to describe... I have a problem that I guess is in the fontrendering of XFree86. I run a suse9.0 desktop machine as well as a suse9.0 laptop both with Xfree 4.3.0.1 but I also tried the last stable release 4.3.0 (from suse8.2). The desktop has a resolution of 1280x1024 at 90x96 DPI (xdpyinfo). The display size value was determined by the X-Server and seems to be correct when I measure my display size and calucate the DPi on my own the result is the same. The laptop has 1400x1050 pixel at 124x124 DPI (xdpyinfo). In this case the server could not determine the display size so I measured the display (285mmx215mm) and calculated the DPI and wrote a DisplaySize Option in my XF86Config file. The strange thing I observed now is that in WYSIWYG applications like Staroffice and koffice identical fonts (tried Thorndale and Times-New-Roman) seem to have different dimensions on the screen depending on the machine the text is displayed on. On one system they seem to be some percent wider. In eg a presentation document this leads to the very annoying fact, that on one system eg some text is displayed on one line and on the other system the same text is broken up into two lines. Actually its not only the same text, and the very same document but also the same linux system with identical Staroffice and Koffice and Xfree installations. As a result the complete layout of such a document can change if the same document is displayed on another (as far as software is concerned) "identical" system. You can take a look at this effect with two screenshots I made. The first show the document on my desktop, the second on my laptop (each graphic is about 40KBytes): http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/xfree/xfreebug90x96dpi.jpg http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/xfree/xfreebug124x124dpi.jpg I first thought this might be a trouble of the Beta Version of Xfree that came with suse9.0 and compiled XFree86-4.3.0-111 used in suse8.2 on my system and installed it on both machines. Now again on each seperate machine the linebreaks changed compared to the suse9.0 Xfree version, but unfortunately the very same document still shows different linebreaks on both systems. Another effekt is that graphics placed somewhere on the page (not anchored in the paragraph) are really always at the same position but the text around them varies due to the different fontrendering. I also tought if this could be a staroffice bug (actually this was my first thought), but since koffice shows the same problem, I think it is not. Anybody who has two machines with different display resolutions should be able to reproduce this bug. Just Create a A4 landscape document, use large fonts (eg 32 points) write a long line of text across the page save the document and then take a look at the linebreaks on both systems using the local displays of each machine. As far as I can say this is a problem of the fontscaling machine but I have no clue if it is really a bug or perhaps a misconfiguration of my system? Anyone any idea? Any advice is welcome. If someone needs more information I'll try to provide it. Thanks for any help Rainer -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Krienke, Universitaet Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, Raum A022 Universitaetsstrasse 1, 56070 Koblenz, Tel: +49 261287 -1312, Fax: -1001312 Mail: krienke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Web: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke Get my public PGP key: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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