Joined: Apr 26, 2006 Posts: 49 Location: Vancouver, BC
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:58 pm Post subject:
pluby wrote:
Does anyone have a large number of fonts installed on their machine. I'm curious how 1000+ fonts compares after the test patch.
I've got about 460 installed, though I normally don't have them all activated at once in order to cut down on menu bloat. After activating the lot of them, it took around 25-35 seconds to start up and bring up a usable Writer window. With Patch 0 Test 4 and a reboot, it's now about 12 seconds.
My machine is an iMac G5, 2.1 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, running OSX 10.4.7, with a half-dozen dashboard widgets gobbling memory.
I can install a few hundred additional fonts in the next day or so and see what happens.
I think it's JKT that has the 1000 (or 1000s) of fonts active. I've only got 294, of which somewhere between 25 and 50 are disabled (not willing to count right now)....
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If you have not installed any of the previous test patches, please reboot after installing the patch as running NeoOffice after the patch won't really change anything since previous runs of NeoOffice will have forced all fonts to load.
Joined: Apr 21, 2006 Posts: 95 Location: Utah, USA
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:42 am Post subject:
Just an update -
I've been running these patches (updated each time you've posted a new update) for about 3 days now, and haven't seen any weirdness...
The only weirdness that I *do* see (thought it also happens in the non-patched alpha 4) is that when I scroll through the font list (using the scrollbar), and then click on a font, the font isn't actually selected. The only way I can select fonts is by scrolling with the keyboard or typing in the font name...
I think it's some kind of java focus issue - possibly related to this bug? (which seems to be about focus and borderless windows, like the font list)
Actually - I just quickly verified that it does happen with all dropdown lists with a scroll bar...and like I said, this was happening in older releases as well (not just the patch versions). I guess I'll log another bug.
Overall, though, I think that the font speedup worked - and aside from the issues mentioned (and subsequently fixed) in this thread, I haven't seen any anomolies.
The only weirdness that I *do* see (thought it also happens in the non-patched alpha 4) is that when I scroll through the font list (using the scrollbar), and then click on a font, the font isn't actually selected. The only way I can select fonts is by scrolling with the keyboard or typing in the font name...
I don't have this problem on my mac (10.4.7 ppc). Scroll with the scrollbar in the Font Name dropdown, click on a font, and it's selected every time. So maybe it's not a java issue unless you're using a different OS version/chip from me...
System: iMac intel core duo with 1GB of RAM using test 4.
A massive improvement! On first launch after a restart I get about 8 dock bounces and about 10-15 seconds on the splash screen. On subsequent launches I get 3-4 dock bounces and 4-8 seconds on the splash screen. This is in stark contrast to the normal alpha 3 and alpha 4 releases which would take a nearly a minute (sometimes longer if it hangs) to launch regardless of whether it was a clean launch or a subsequent launch. It really is night and day.
Thank you very much for this development, it has improved NeoOffice immensely for me.
Joined: Apr 26, 2006 Posts: 49 Location: Vancouver, BC
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:58 pm Post subject:
OK, now up to 600 fonts loaded and with test patch 5, it's now about 18-20 seconds to get a usable Writer window on first startup. Subsequent startups (after quitting completely) are still around 12-13 secs. Definitely an improvement over plain old 2.0a4.
The one oddity I see is that on first pulling down the font menu (the default font on my setup is Times New Roman), the scrollbar's position indicator appears about 30% of the way down the scrollbar rather than about 75% or so as you'd expect for TNR in an alphabetic list of fonts. I'm pretty sure that it was there before applying the test patch, however.
If testing goes well, with these changes be part of 2.0 Beta?
If you have not installed any of the previous test patches, please reboot after installing the patch as running NeoOffice after the patch won't really change anything since previous runs of NeoOffice will have forced all fonts to load.
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject: Crashing with test patch 6
Patrick,
I'm getting a consistent crash with test patch 6 and a presentation file. This file is saved as both ODP and Powerpoint and both crash the program on loading. The program gets to the point where the slide text is displayed and graphics show as empty frames and then crashes.
A Word document with included graphics worked fine.
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject: Re: Crashing with test patch 6
Anonymous wrote:
I'm getting a consistent crash with test patch 6 and a presentation file. This file is saved as both ODP and Powerpoint and both crash the program on loading. The program gets to the point where the slide text is displayed and graphics show as empty frames and then crashes.
Can you open a bug in Bugzilla and attach a sample document for me so that I can debug this?
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