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fede

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Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 126

Openoffice ugly fonts (bad subpixel smoothing on LCD screens) fix

Hello,

I' ve recently tried out ubuntu hardy, and they have fixed subpixel smoothing for LCD fonts. Perhaps some of you might find this interesting.
Some info:

Pictures of antialiasing in oo.org calc vs gnumeric (to compare with a properly antialiased application)
Arch linux http://www.stafforini.com/fede/openoffice_arch.png
Kubuntu Hardy RC http://www.stafforini.com/fede/openoffi … _hardy.png

Ubuntuforums thread about this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4750174
I' ve filed a bug report, #10234 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10234, hoping that this gets ported to archlinux.
Also, this issue has been discussed before in the forums: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=357504 I hope it is not considered spamming the forums to bring this up again.

If someone who reads this manages to bring this to arch, please comment on how you did it! (would a PKGBUILD be too much to ask, perhaps? I couldn't manage to compile OO.org when I tried, I'd like to have done that myself!)

Regards.

Last edited by fede (2008-04-20 23:17:30)

steno

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From: Pordenone - Italy

Registered: 2008-01-04

Posts: 5

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Re: Openoffice ugly fonts (bad subpixel smoothing on LCD screens) fix

Remove your openoffice-base and install patched version from archlinuxfr repo

[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686

pacman -Sy openoffice-base-systemcairo

More info (on italian) here : http://www.archlinux.it/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1211

SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: Openoffice ugly fonts (bad subpixel smoothing on LCD screens) fix

Steno, do you mind adding more patches from opensuse, such as gstreamer for audio/video, prettier menus, icon theme support, etc.

They have the most polished OO package.

fede

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Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 126

Re: Openoffice ugly fonts (bad subpixel smoothing on LCD screens) fix

Thanks a lot, steno!