Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 14871
Screen fonts look terrible again
Last modified: 2003-06-16 11:01:38 UTC
The screen fonts in beta2 have become terrible again for some of the fonts that were perfectly antialiased in beta 1. Screenshots to come. Alex.
Created attachment 6408 [details] anitaliased screen fonts under beta1
Created attachment 6409 [details] non antialiased screenfont in beta2
this is probably a gsl issue not sw issue, changing
cp->pl: confirmed, the OOo does not find the URW fonts. Duplicate to the thingy with 'not finding afm when located in the same directory as pfb'. Please enter the according issue id.
duplicate to issue 12936 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 12936 ***
closing duplicate
Errm, I 've just checked out issue 12936, but I don't see what the relationship is. Reopened issue.
pl->cp: you said the afm file of URW files was not found; this would lead to them not being used but normal X fonts (=ugly) instead. Am i right in second guessing your original reasoning :-) ?
yep, the usage of Type1 fonts is effectively blocked by issue 12936. This affects the usage of the URW fonts that serve as Helvetica, Times, Courier, ... As you can see from your screenshot Antialiasing works in the UI. So it simply works. But the document font (which is Helvetica) doesn't show up antialiased. Just have a look at the share/psprint/pspfontcache (or user/psprint/psp...) and check which fonts are available in your beta1 and in your beta2 installation. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 12936 ***
Hmmm, Ok, but it says 12936 is fixed, verified and resolved in vcl10. What is VCL10 ? What relation does this have to the current of future releases ? Sorry if I'm asking questions that have obvious answers here, but I'm not a developer, just a user trying to understand. Alex.
vcl10 is geek term. It meens the fix is available in Sun internal builds. It will be merged into the main trunc and becomes part of the next OpenOffice 1.1 build.
closed duplicate