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[Carsten Aulbert]

Jamie wrote:
> 2.   Font 'quality' - the rendering of screen fonts in Windows seems a lot
> clearer than those in Ubuntu. Given that I spend a *huge* amount of time
> looking at my computer screen (19" LCD) this is of importance to me. The
> only thing I not of real difference is that for some reason Ubuntu wants
> to drive my LCD at 75HZ rather than 60HZ and I have not found any way to
> change this as yet - any suggestions appreciated.

I'm not using Gnome, therefore others should jump in here where to
change the refresh rate (Hz, with a small z), but there are certain
settings where you can increase the font quality:

(1) Run the LCD with its native resolution, never with an interpolated one
(2) Somewhere in the system settings (probably named Display or the
like), you can change the hinting, sub pixel rendering etc. Esp. for
LCDs this can increase the quality drastically. Again, can someone tell
me the exact name and location of these settings within the menu?

> 3.   DTP - I have quite a number of MS Publisher documents that I'd like
> to be able to work on in Ubuntu. Research to this point shows that this is
> not possible (without Crossover or Wine to run Publisher in Linux). This I
> think is just going to be a "suck it and see" situation, if I can do
> everything else I'll just have to recreate to documents in Scribus or
> similar.

I guess this is mostly related to the fact that the publisher document
formats are not open to program good import filters. I've used scribus
only once or twice (not doing DTP at all, just being curious) but I
found it quite nice to use. Is it possible to export documents from MS
publisher to some format scribus can then reread?

> The first two things are the things I'd really like to find solutions to
> and anyone who can point me in the right direction to "speed things up"
> and "fix my fonts" would be fantastic.

HTH

Carsten