Issue 89351 - 2.4.0 Font Rendering is Bad
Summary: 2.4.0 Font Rendering is Bad
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.4.0
Hardware: All Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: stefan.baltzer
QA Contact: issues@framework
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Keywords: needmoreinfo
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-05-13 00:03 UTC by sb56637
Modified: 2010-10-17 07:22 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description sb56637 2008-05-13 00:03:34 UTC 
Hi,

I am using the official OOo 2.4.0 Linux debs from OpenOffice.org on Ubuntu 8.04.
 Note that I am NOT using the Ubuntu build, but rather the official OOo build. 
Fonts in OpenOffice look blurry on my system.  I have tried to set up font
replacement for the "Andale Sans UI" font, and I have tried to disable the "Use
system fonts" option in OOo, but nothing makes a difference.  It is using my
Gnome fonts (DejaVu Sans Book), but something is wrong with the subpixel hinting
and it looks awful.

Thanks for the help!
Comment 1 marcabru 2008-05-13 05:43:23 UTC 
I think that the official OOO build does not follow the system-wide setting for
font hinting and subpixel rendering. You can get subpixel hints by

- using OOo shipped with hardy heron (it is compiled to follow the gnome font
settings)
- using the official OOo 3.0 beta (because it's a 3.0 feature)

(Somebody please, correct me if I'm wrong.)
Comment 2 Olaf Felka 2008-05-13 07:21:52 UTC 
@ sba: Please have a look.
Comment 3 sb56637 2008-05-13 13:19:21 UTC 
Hello again, thanks for the comments.

Yes, the Ubuntu Hardy build of OOo 2.4.0 looks good, but it has other bigger
issues, which is why I am using the official build.  Is there any way to make
these instructions work?  http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html#9  I
have tried substituting all sorts of fonts, with no success.
Comment 4 Olaf Felka 2010-06-03 10:30:26 UTC 
@ sb56637: Is this issue still valid for OOo 3.2?
Comment 5 Olaf Felka 2010-08-18 11:54:50 UTC 
No answer from the submitter...
Comment 6 Mechtilde 2010-10-17 07:22:10 UTC 
invalid -> closed