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Open Office renders fonts much more differently from the rest of my Gnome apps.
I have the three LCD packages from AUR/community and my fonts look great on my LCD, but OO is different.
Here is the menu bar of Writer with the menu bar of Firefox on top of it:
Last edited by sfdsafds (2007-12-25 20:50:56)
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Yes. This is because OOo doesn't use freetype. Yes, it's stupid. Yes, it's a bug.
No fix in sight, either. Use abiword and other alternatives if it really bothers you.
EDIT: This might be misleading. OOo does use a freetype, it's just not yours. It's got a built-in version. There was one happy time you could LD_PRELOAD your own freetype and escape this, but it doesn't work anymore.
Last edited by buttons (2007-12-25 21:38:12)
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AFAIK, OOo uses it's very own toolkit to render anything. Must be one of the worst design-decisions I've ever come across...
Anyways, no fix for it, but you might want to try KOffice - I hear it's slowly maturing into something better than OOo...
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Interesting, thanks for the reply guys.. I will see if OO comes with a compile flag to use external freetype2..
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Interesting, thanks for the reply guys.. I will see if OO comes with a compile flag to use external freetype2..
You're gonna compile OOo yourself? Have fun. I did that once or twice, just for the fun of it - it's not fun. Will not take less than 6 hours and is bound to fail in the last stage...
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Interesting, thanks for the reply guys.. I will see if OO comes with a compile flag to use external freetype2..
It doesn't. Really, there isn't any fix right now. Google for open office and font rendering, and you'll see what I mean. Sorry.
Don't bother compiling the SVN, either. They're not in any rush.
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Several distros have included a fix for this, including Ubuntu Hardy and latest Fedora. There is a patched version for archlinux available. See here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47420
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