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clappboard

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Registered: 2011-11-26

Posts: 39

LibreOffice Fonts Not Rendering Smoothly

This is kind of hard to explain, but in LibreOffice Writer (GNOME) the fonts don't seem to render smoothly when changing to zoom factor.  It's like when you zoom in, rather than adjusting the font size smoothly, the letters just end up looking bold.  They only look normal at <=100%.  It's strange.  This issue occurs for all fonts.
Any help is appreciated!

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quasifilmie

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Registered: 2011-10-27

Posts: 296

Re: LibreOffice Fonts Not Rendering Smoothly

It's probably your video card driver. Could you post a screenshot?

clappboard

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Registered: 2011-11-26

Posts: 39

Re: LibreOffice Fonts Not Rendering Smoothly

Here's the screenshots:
100% Zoom
110% Zoom
You can see that the difference in the weight of the text is far more extreme than the zoom level.
Thanks!

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Hspasta

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Registered: 2011-12-24

Posts: 189

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Re: LibreOffice Fonts Not Rendering Smoothly

Try the patched freetype2 packages in the AUR. You have infinality, ubuntu and cleartype to choose from. I use the ubuntu patched and I think my fonts look fine.
100%
110%

Last edited by Hspasta (2012-06-14 07:08:41)

clappboard

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Registered: 2011-11-26

Posts: 39

Re: LibreOffice Fonts Not Rendering Smoothly

Try the patched freetype2 packages in the AUR. You have infinality, ubuntu and cleartype to choose from. I use the ubuntu patched and I think my fonts look fine.
100%
110%

Yeah, your fonts look fine...  I tried installing the package you mentioned (Ubuntu version) but see no difference...

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I also go by 'clappy.'