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   Steve Wendt to All   
   Re: Workplace Sans 0.81   
   02 Jun 11 20:15:43   
   
   Firefox/4.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.1   
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   On 06/02/11 01:49 am, Alex Taylor wrote:   
      
   >>>> Everything looks great in SeaMonkey, but in OpenOffice, the menus look   
   >>>> really ugly now (bold and italic).  The rotated numbers are showing up   
   >>>> in the ruler, which was a surprise, since I am using the bitmap   
   >>   
   >> http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Captured001.png   
   >   
   > I'm not sure what that is, but it certainly isn't Workplace Sans.   
   > (It looks as if it might be one of the DejaVu fonts.  I must say the   
   > text in the font selection dropdown is rather nice-looking...)   
      
   Indeed...   
      
   > Did you remember to reboot after updating the font?  OO uses the Innotek   
   > Font Engine, which requires a reboot to pick up any font changes...   
      
   Bah!  Another reason I hope Yuri switches to FreeType.  You are of    
   course right.  After a reboot, my menus look better, and the numbers in    
   the ruler are non-rotated again.   
      
   If the menus didn't come out so ugly, I'd rather have OO use the other font!   
      
   --- Internet Rex 2.31   
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