What is up with fonts in FC3????

Kenny Gow kgfedora at swbell.net
Fri Dec 10 16:20:25 UTC 2004


Gregory Gulik wrote:
> 
> One of the first differences I saw when I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 was 
> when I installed it on a wide screen laptop it was very obvious there 
> was more spacing between lines than in FC2.  It's much less obvious on a 
> standard 4x3 aspect ratio screen.
> 
> At first I thought it was just in Mozilla/Firefox but today I tried to 
> print out a document I made in OpenOffice just before upgrading and the 
> formatting was completely messed up!  I had to spend a lot of time 
> adjusting line spacings to make everything fit on a page again.  This 
> was typical of the kinds of annoying changes I saw when upgrading MS 
> Office but come on, Fedora should be better than that.
> 
> I'd love to file a bug report but I'm not sure which component this is in?
> 
> Can someone help me out here?
> 
> Am I the only one getting frustrated by the goofy font changes from FC2 
> to FC3???
> 

You're not the only one. The same fonts I used in FC2 in 
Thunderbird and Firefox look more spread out now and it's
a lot less pleasing. I don't know what happened, but it's
annoying and I may have to change my default fonts.....

--Kenny




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