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#1 2008-02-03 00:41:44

blu3ness
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From: Edmonton, Canada
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Ugly open office fonts, dam it, how do you fix it?

I hate open office, mainly because its ugly fonts, its font rendering is just so crippled, I took a screenshot of Abiword with Openoffice together, as you can see, the font sucks on oowriter.

I already installed a lot of ttf fonts using sadmin, but that didn't help all that much. sad

thumb_office.jpg


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#2 2008-02-03 16:33:53

byte
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Re: Ugly open office fonts, dam it, how do you fix it?

Eh, you really think those cramped, fuzzy fonts on AbiWord look _better_?


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#3 2008-02-03 19:23:28

blu3ness
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Re: Ugly open office fonts, dam it, how do you fix it?

they are at a different zoom tho, the abiword at least uses my gtk settings... :X

I have seen screenshots of KDE openoffice fonts looking really nice, but I havn't been able to achieve that yet... anyone help?


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#4 2008-02-04 01:17:42

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Re: Ugly open office fonts, dam it, how do you fix it?

There is nothing you can do about it. Oo uses its own font rendering library. You may be able to find the info to hack it and recompile the damn thing, but it will take a while

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#5 2008-02-04 01:53:59

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Re: Ugly open office fonts, dam it, how do you fix it?

This is an interesting link: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic … 2cb23823b9
Found it here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=406273

Haven't tried any of these solutions myself since I gave up on using OO a while ago, but let us know if you end up finding a solution to this.

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#6 2008-02-04 04:25:24

blu3ness
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Re: Ugly open office fonts, dam it, how do you fix it?

Im using Abiword now anyway, just using it to compose quick letter or two, for anything complicated with enumeration and figures, I still prefer LaTex.

Thanks... tongue


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#7 2008-02-04 04:28:48

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Re: Ugly open office fonts, dam it, how do you fix it?

KOffice, mate!

I'm sure it's something due to Java. Java fonts are ugly. I don't know a way to fix that.


I need real, proper pen and paper for this.

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#8 2008-02-29 20:33:26

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Re: Ugly open office fonts, dam it, how do you fix it?

The official OO does not have this problem. I think it's a hinting patch that causes it. I can't get the official to install though.

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#9 2008-04-19 04:09:58

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Re: Ugly open office fonts, dam it, how do you fix it?

Hello,

I find this to be one of the most frustrating problems in linux, and had never seen anything fix it - UNTIL TONIGHT! Just checked kubuntu release candidate, and the fonts within openoffice spreadsheet are much better than anything I've seen. The current version of ubuntu (7.10, gutsy) was no better than arch's own openoffice, but now it seems that they've come up with something interesting the upcoming 8.04 release.

I'm very curious to see how they' ve done it, hopefully someone can find out and bring this back home to arch.

SpookyET, how did you install the official OO? I tried using the rpm version from OO, used rpm2tar on it and installed it. The results were exactly the same as the other OO as far as I could tell (and I think I ran them at the same time, not sure, though, it was one month ago - but it certainly wasn' t an improvement).

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#10 2008-04-19 05:08:36

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Re: Ugly open office fonts, dam it, how do you fix it?

fede wrote:

Hello,

I find this to be one of the most frustrating problems in linux, and had never seen anything fix it - UNTIL TONIGHT! Just checked kubuntu release candidate, and the fonts within openoffice spreadsheet are much better than anything I've seen. The current version of ubuntu (7.10, gutsy) was no better than arch's own openoffice, but now it seems that they've come up with something interesting the upcoming 8.04 release.

I'm very curious to see how they' ve done it, hopefully someone can find out and bring this back home to arch.

SpookyET, how did you install the official OO? I tried using the rpm version from OO, used rpm2tar on it and installed it. The results were exactly the same as the other OO as far as I could tell (and I think I ran them at the same time, not sure, though, it was one month ago - but it certainly wasn' t an improvement).

I have installed the official OO debs on Gutsy.

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#11 2008-04-19 12:27:09

fede
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Re: Ugly open office fonts, dam it, how do you fix it?

An image is better than many words: fonts look identical in gnome apps and OO under ubuntu hardy RC

Kubuntu Hardy: www.stafforini.com/fede/openoffice_kubuntu_hardy.png (that's hardy with my kdemod theme)
Arch: www.stafforini.com/fede/openoffice_arch.png

In arch, the difference was similar to what is seen in blue3ness's original post.

SppokyET: That's strange, I was quite sure I had tried out official OO under gutsy, and it looked just as terrible as the default one which was, as I said, no better than arch. In any case, hardy has excelent fonts in OO!

Last edited by fede (2008-04-20 15:17:49)

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#12 2008-05-04 02:54:10

fede
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Re: Ugly open office fonts, dam it, how do you fix it?

According to steno, there is a repo with a patched version of openoffice. See here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47420

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