Why does Debian display and print OO2 documents differently than Ubuntu?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 02:39:11PM +1200, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> I have noticed that the same OpenOffice 2 odg file is printed
> dramatically differently on Debian than how it is on Ubuntu? E.g.
> 
> http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/~jmcc114/oo_snafu/
> 
> Is this a "feature" or a bug? If it is a bug is it a bug with the
> Debain or Ubuntu version?

It probably results from different fonts being used.  In Dapper, we have
made efforts to be metric-compatible with industry standard fonts:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-March/016949.html

-- 
 - mdz