[ale] SO vs OO

[Geoffrey]

Dow Hurst wrote:
> We have scientific poster for the Biophysical Society meeting every 
> year.  The posters have scientific symbols, imported chemical
> drawings, tables, and so on.  Even if one font or symbol isn't
> converted correctly it can screw up the layout or look.  No one would
> want to troubleshoot under a deadline a file conversion problem.
> Most of this work is done just before we leave for the meeting so
> there isn't time for any problems.  I am sure that this stuff will go
> away over time as OOo and SO release newer revisions of the package.
> I actually haven't tried SO in a long time so don't know how it would
> do on one of my posters.  I've been meaning to send one of the
> posters to the OOo developers.  I am sure they need test files,

Maybe I'm missing something, but with the ability to add any true type 
font to the X font services, I don't understand why you couldn't create 
the poster with OO or SO from the start????

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