Re: few issues with formatting (CVS HEAD)

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 19:59:47 EDT

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    On 27 May 2003, Mike wrote:

    > On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 15:12, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    > > --- Mike <mike@redtux.demon.co.uk> wrote:
    > > > I have come across the following issues with current
    > > > cvs
    > >
    > > Are all of these things in bugzilla?
    > >
    > > > 1. Page setup crashes
    > >
    > > Cannot reproduce on Win32 or linux. What platform are
    > > you on?
    > >
    > > > 2. Fonts
    > > >
    > > > When I open a document for which I dont have the
    > > > font installed (eg:
    > > > Times New Roman), the kerning gets mangled so the
    > > > document is unreadable
    > > > - shouldnt a font be substituted.
    > >
    > > If you're on linux, FontConfig is supposed to
    > > substitute fonts for us. If the results is
    > > sub-optimal, FontConfig is likely to blame. I highly
    > > suggest installing the MS Core Fonts package or
    > > something.
    > >
    > > > 3. Page layout
    > > >
    > > > When I open a document, the layout is the default
    > > > layout rather than the
    > > > layout of the document, margins, bullets etc.
    > >
    > > I don't understand what you're saying here. Can you
    > > rephrase this?
    >
    > Ok for example I have a document with margins set at 0.5 for all and
    > bullets.
    >
    > When I open it in abiword all margins are set to 1.0 and bullets to
    > default rather than what is in the original document

    What program wrote the document? Was it MS Word? What format is the
    document in? Is it in MS Word format (.doc) or RTF (.rtf)?

    Martin

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