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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(I'm sending this from a customer site - don't know whether it gets through ok...)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Regarding Nick Brown's installation problem:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Move the method textStyle from StrikeFont to AbstractFont, and it will work.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Regarding Andreas' scaling suggestion:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Using a scaled width factor would not help much. Currently, character widths are summed up</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">in Integer math, and scaling is only done as a final step, so it's pretty efficient already.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">By using the character widths as defined in the TTF file, we have a chance of getting pretty</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">exact string width measurements, which is IMO a prerequisite for WYSIWYG text formatting.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cheers,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hans-Martin</FONT>
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