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One of my favourite applications for many things is Textease
studio. In particular, I've come to rely on the Textease Presenter
package as my alternative to Powerpoint as it's so easy to use and versatile. However, although Textease's DTP pakage seems to run very well on V.A5000, the Presenter pakage ( and the database too) suffer font problems on VA5000. In both, any font seems to lose its definition, becoming almost blurred in appearance, with colours breaking up. In essence it becomes unreadable.

The problem happens both on the Laptop and on the desktop PC I use at work as well (I bought a '2 machine licence).

I don't know if you are aware of this problem, and if so, whether
there is a simple solution. If not, do you think there may be some way round it - I would not wish to lose my use of the package. If not, I guess I'll have to purchase the PC version of Textease as well - although then I'd lose the generic riscOS advantages!!

A solution was found, by Aaron - as follows:


No its not the PC - it looks as though the two apps are not
correctly setting the anti-aliasing pallete and are just assuming it
will be correct - in 16 colour modes it will be correct by default.
But in 256 colour modes using VIDC it won't. Perhaps the
programs are assuming they are running on a RISC PC or later
machine with a VIDC20 which has a fully programmable 256
colour palette. The 256 colour palette on RISC OS 3.1 is derived
from only 16 "base colours"

reverting to an older font manager might help.
Click on HardDisc4
SHIFT double click on !Boot
Go into Choices.Boot.Predesk
SHIFT drag the module called FONTS to the main
HardDisc4 window to move it out of the boot sequence
Quit and re-load VA5000
Any better?

Aaron (VirtualAcorn)