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Kirurgs

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Registered: 2008-10-20

Posts: 141

Font/text problems after upgrade to gtk2-2.14.4-1

Hi all!

Ok, so for the problem: after upgrading to gtk2-2.14.4-1 fonts/text from OpenOffice 2.4 menu doesn't render at all. I mean all menu entries are just empty (spaces), the same applies to Lotus Notes DB icons on workspaces and workspace dialogs like properties. Even document fonts are missing in OO 2.4, like blank space where text should be. I think the problems (OO and LN) are the same.
How to get that text back?

I already tried copying $HOME/.fonts to /usr/share/fonts and updating fontconfig, no luck so far.
Before update everything was nice. OO 3.0 is ok as well, no problems.
Additionally I upgraded all Gnome from testing on different rig - the problem is the same, OO 2.4 doesn't have a menu entries (text missing)

Before anyone asks: no I'm not running anything from testing on this machine!

Can anyone help?

thanx and best regards
Kirurgs

P.S. First post, short intro: I'm using Arch for a while now (like 3 months or so), linux for over 3 years now. Before Arch I mostly used Fedora's and Debian.

Last edited by Kirurgs (2008-10-20 14:10:11)

Kirurgs

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Registered: 2008-10-20

Posts: 141

Re: Font/text problems after upgrade to gtk2-2.14.4-1

Is it so that noone is suffering or noone just uses openoffice-base-systemcairo?
Here's the screenshot of my issue:

Edit:
by turning off font smoothing (not hinting) in gnome appearance font confguration, fonts are in place, but as expected - soo bloody ugly
By doing this trick there is still no text on Lotus Notes icons! Smth is wrong here with the font rendering libraries...

Last edited by Kirurgs (2008-10-21 07:41:13)

Kirurgs

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Registered: 2008-10-20

Posts: 141

Re: Font/text problems after upgrade to gtk2-2.14.4-1

Ok, last try, anyone using OO 2.4?

lilsirecho

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Re: Font/text problems after upgrade to gtk2-2.14.4-1

gtk2 conflicts with gail...perhaps that is a clue

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Kirurgs

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Registered: 2008-10-20

Posts: 141

Re: Font/text problems after upgrade to gtk2-2.14.4-1

Actually, as I check with pacman -Si gtk2, it says it's providing gail...
All other apps are OK, just OO 2.4 and LN icons, damn

fede

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Registered: 2007-06-29

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Re: Font/text problems after upgrade to gtk2-2.14.4-1

Hello, I had the same problem: I am using official openoffice-base (3.0) from extra and fonts now seem to render fine, thus taking away the reason to use openoffice-base-systemcairo.

Don't know if extra package is using system cairo now or if it just respects my settings, but it is certainly much better than what it used to be when I changed to openoffice-base-systemcairo.