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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] Issue displaying italics
From:       Jim Kelleher <jkelleher () jps ! net>
Date:       2003-10-08 0:38:21
Message-ID: 200310071738.21527.jkelleher () jps ! net
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On Tuesday 07 October 2003 12:26 pm, CPH wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 October 2003 20:18, Steve Wolf wrote:
> > This isn't necessarily an issue with OpenOffice, but only happens in
> > OpenOffice.  When typing in italics, some of the text will display wrong.
> > Bits of letters will be missing. It doesn't always happen, but it's
> > obviously annoying when it does.
> >
> > All I have to do to make this happen is start a new document and type
> > some text in the default font (Times New Roman, 12).  After a few lines,
> > if I switch to italics and start typing a lot, some of the letters will
> > be displayed wrong.  Closing parentheses ")" are especially prone to
> > nearly disappearing entirely.  Hitting Enter to end the paragraph seems
> > to cause the line to be redrawn on the screen so that it looks right - as
> > does hitting Page Down then Page Up.
> >
> > This problem only occurs on an older computer (500 MHz with 64 MB of
> > RAM), it's fine on a 1 GHz system with 256 MB of RAM.  I figure upgrading
> > the old computer will fix this.  Any suggestion on what to start
> > upgrading to fix this?  RAM, video card?  Or is there some workaround to
> > get things displaying properly?
>
> What operating system are you using and what version of OpenOffice ?
Ram is my first idea.
Works well on a PII 366 Laptop with 128 MB a little slow maybe but it does 
work well.
HTH
JIm TE
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Jim 

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