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hirs

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Registered: 2003-10-11

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Unable to change OpenOffice UI fonts

I have tryed to change the user intreface font of OpenOffice, the default is ugly, so I followed the guide on the oo site:
http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html

but it makes no effect I have changed Andale Sans UI font to some other fonts, but no way, no changes are made.

This worked for me on kubuntu, I don't  know what is going on...

Any experiences with this?

Thanks

tomfitzyuk

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Registered: 2005-12-30

Posts: 89

Re: Unable to change OpenOffice UI fonts

Have you done this:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fon … ing_either.

It worked for me.

mic64

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Registered: 2005-03-03

Posts: 173

Re: Unable to change OpenOffice UI fonts

ha..and I thought I am the only one with this issue.
But neither the FAQs from openoffice.org or wiki helped.
Menu Fonts look like crap

hirs

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Registered: 2003-10-11

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Re: Unable to change OpenOffice UI fonts

Yeah, still the same

Actually, both UI and document fonts are really ugly, and aliasing don't help much more.

Could be a fontconfig related problem, I think it's not using my fontconfig library

stonecrest

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Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: Unable to change OpenOffice UI fonts

I've had the same annoying problem forever and can confirm that the wiki entry didn't change anything here. I'd love to know a solution to this as well. You'd think "export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome" would make OpenOffice use the gtk-specified font just as it uses the gtk open dialog, etc...

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hirs

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Re: Unable to change OpenOffice UI fonts

I have found a workaround, the problem may be in the freetype version, I have downloaded freetype2 from a 0.7 archlinux repo:
ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr … pkg.tar.gz

Instead of installing, you can uncompress the package an copy the file libfreetype.so.6.3.6 to /opt/openoffice/program/libfreetype.so.6

This will make oo use that library instead of the systems one

It's weird, why all apps except oo work with the latest version?

robbel

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Registered: 2006-05-17

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Re: Unable to change OpenOffice UI fonts

but it makes no effect I have changed Andale Sans UI font to some other fonts, but no way, no changes are made.

It works for me if I also UNcheck the option "Use system font for user interface" in the OpenOffice.org > View tab.

Does it work for you too?

Cu,
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hirs

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Registered: 2003-10-11

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Re: Unable to change OpenOffice UI fonts

Yes, now it works, but I still have a bad looking font problem I only managed to solve by doing all that stuff I say above your post