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   Alex Taylor to All   
   Re: Workplace Sans 0.81   
   04 Jun 11 20:06:02   
   
   From: "Alex Taylor"    
      
   On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 03:15:43 UTC, Steve Wendt  wrote:   
      
   > > 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!   
      
   Well, one advantage of IFE is that you can define a font alias (in the   
   registry).  I just tried aliasing "Workplace Sans" to "Midori Sans",   
   rebooting, and starting up OpenOffice.  The menus are still WarpSans   
   but the dialog text looks... rather nice. ;)   
      
      
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