Issue 18276 - True Type fonts display poorly on Linux
Summary: True Type fonts display poorly on Linux
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: ui
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC3
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: mci
QA Contact: issues@ui
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Reported: 2003-08-16 02:01 UTC by des
Modified: 2003-11-20 16:30 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description des 2003-08-16 02:01:54 UTC 
MS True Type fonts (Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana, etc.) when installed on
Linux (Mandrake 9.1, KDE 3.1, GNOME 2.x) display poorly in an OOo document.
"Poorly" means here that spaces between words seem not to be there, letters run
together, and the cursor appears in the middle of the letter it follows.

I have checked this on both 1.1 RC2 and RC3 and see the same behavious. The
Bitstream Vera fonts display somewhat better, but not perfectly. If I increase
the Zoom percentage to 115% or 120%, the fonts display as one would expect at
100% resolution, however, having the document at these zoom levels is not an
acceptabl solution.
Comment 1 rblackeagle 2003-08-16 15:23:37 UTC 
I believe this is a freetype issue.  It is not present with Lycoris
which displays the fonts perfectly.
Comment 2 khendricks 2003-08-17 05:06:14 UTC 
Hi, 
 
I think you are right that this is a system freetype issue.  It works fine with my PPC 
Linux build as well.  
 
The bug reporter may want to upgrade to a newer version of  freetype and see if that 
helps. 
 
Kevin
Comment 3 des 2003-09-05 05:34:07 UTC 
I'm not convinced that this is a system font issue, although I haven't
been able to spend much time investigating it. I'm on Mandrake 9.1,
with all the latest patches, so, as far as I know, I have the latest
freetype libraries, which it would appear are the core of this issue.
There may be a later non-Mandrake version, and I will look into that,
hopefully tomorrow, Sept. 5th (the laptop is at work).
Comment 4 des 2003-09-06 00:38:03 UTC 
I've downloaded and compiled the freetype2 2.1.4 tarball (Mandrake 9.1
shipped with 2.1.3). I see a slight improvement when using the
Bitstream fonts; however, the Times New Roman display is still very poor. 

Note: I found a version of libfreetype.so.6 in both
/opt/OpenOffice.org1.1/program/filter and
/opt/OpenOffice.org1.1/program. I renamed them so that OOo would pick
up the version in /usr/lib.
Comment 5 des 2003-09-18 21:33:32 UTC 
I now have a RedHat 9 installation on my home desktop, as well as the
Mandrake 9.1 on this laptop - and the RH font display looks fine.
RedHat ships with freetype-2.1.3-6, while Mandrake has:

rpm -qa |grep freetype
freetype2-2.1.3-12mdk
freetype-1.3.1-18mdk
freetype-tools-1.3.1-18mdk
freetype2-devel-2.1.3-12mdk

As can be seen from the above, Mandrake has a completely different
set-up, and would seem therefore to be the culprit. If another
Mandrake user could confirm this it would help...

Also, does anyone know if I can rpm -e the Mandrake RPMs and apply the
stock rpm as shipped with RH?
Comment 6 mci 2003-11-20 16:25:52 UTC 
reassigned to mci
Comment 7 mci 2003-11-20 16:27:05 UTC 
Since this seems to be a freetype item I'm going to close this Issue
now...
Comment 8 mci 2003-11-20 16:30:38 UTC 
closing

@des:  You may have a look to your distributors homepage or other
sites (freshmeat.net, rpmfind.net,...)