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Hwiparam

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Registered: 2011-09-26

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Is it possible to enable/disable font antialiasing ONLY in LO?

I've got a question: Does the option marked in the picture with a red line work for you? I mean: Can you enable/disable LO font AA using this "tick" in Options/Libreoffice/View?
I'm asking because in my case it changes absolutely nothing and I have no idea whether it's my "fault" or a common problem (bug?) in LO. Can I somehow figure that out? If so, then how can i do it?

Last edited by Hwiparam (2014-11-07 13:34:34)

brebs

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Re: Is it possible to enable/disable font antialiasing ONLY in LO?

Do you seriously want bitmap fonts? This isn't the 1980s - try Infinality, or even just Ubuntu's freetype patches, for fonts that look approximately thousands of times better.

drcouzelis

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Re: Is it possible to enable/disable font antialiasing ONLY in LO?

According to the online documentation, the option for "Use Anti-Aliasing" only applies to graphics that are embedded in the document, not fonts.

Even so, I'm sure there's a way to force fontconfig to use special settings for just LibreOffice. (Although I have no idea how that's done.)

YOU DON'T WANT THAT THING YOU SAID YOU WANT.

Thanks, brebs.

Last edited by drcouzelis (2014-11-07 17:37:51)

Hwiparam

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Re: Is it possible to enable/disable font antialiasing ONLY in LO?

Well, in Polish, the word "czcionek" stands for "fonts" - so  the underlined may be understood as "enable the antialiasing of on-screen fonts". For the AA of graphical elements there is yet another "tick" in the preferences dialog.

drcouzelis

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Re: Is it possible to enable/disable font antialiasing ONLY in LO?

Oops! I'm sorry. (I didn't see your screenshot because of my stupid web browser.)

That option in English is "Screen font antialiasing". I agree that it doesn't seem to do anything. The Arch Linux wiki suggests that it changes antialiasing on the menu fonts, not the document fonts.

Hwiparam

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Re: Is it possible to enable/disable font antialiasing ONLY in LO?

Even so, I'm sure there's a way to force fontconfig to use special settings for just LibreOffice. (Although I have no idea how that's done.)

Yesterday evening I did some googling, however with little result (actually no clear answer so far) If this option does not work for you as well, I think there is a problem with LO, not with my settings.
Maybe some day I will find a way to use fontconfig for that, as you described Or I'll report a bug to the developers. But now I have little time to waste and I've already wasted it too much on this "problem" Thanks.