Open Office 3.0 Released

markluocanada · 10-30-2008, 02:31 AM

Hi, Guys,

I downloaded and installed openoffice 3.0 on the top of openoffice 2.41, and find the font in oo3 is very ugly. So I kinda have two options, first, go back to oo 2.4, second, get the font issue fixed. However, currently, really don't have the time to real all the website to fix the font.

So can someone please tell me how to get back to openoffice 2.4, and I kinda lost, because I can't find the openoffice either in slackbuild, or slackware packages.

Thanks guys in advance.

MARK

markluocanada · 10-30-2008, 04:02 AM

Problem solved. thanks.
Mark

dugan · 10-30-2008, 11:35 AM

As far as I know, the official OpenOffice.org binaries are compiled without Cairo support. That might be the reason for the ugly fonts.

There are other editions you can try though. They might render fonts differently. See:
http://katana.oooninja.com/w/editions_of_openoffice.org

Andrey@ · 12-05-2008, 06:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

Taken from Vinicius' comments at my blog: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?bl...71828225061007

People who uses rpm2tgz can try that solution and see if it works

Yes, perfect!

markluocanada · 01-17-2009, 08:43 AM

Hi, dugan,

Sorry to bring this thread up, as my openoffice 3.0 fonts are really ugly. So could you please direct me a way to have openoffice 3 compiled with Cairo support? and Iast time, I just went back to openoffice 2.4.

I actually read through the whole thread of "Beautiful font in slackware 12.1" and try to look for a way to fix this, but didn't get it. I installed all the four pkgs you posted at that thread, and everything looks great, but openoffice 3.0 font seems worse than before.

My firefox looks good, I guess that is because I am still using firefox 2.0, if I have firefox 3.0, font must be as ugly as openoffice 3.0.

Thanks.
Mark

dugan · 01-17-2009, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by markluocanada

So could you please direct me a way to have openoffice 3 compiled with Cairo support?

I can think of two ways:

build it yourself
install GnomeSlackBuild, which includes OpenOffice.org with Cairo support (and should have a release supporting 12.2 soon)

As far as I know, there is no build-from-source OpenOffice.org SlackBuild for vanilla Slackware. I'll thank you if you if you write one though

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Quote:

I actually read through the whole thread of "Beautiful font in slackware 12.1..." if I have firefox 3.0, font must be as ugly as openoffice 3.0.

I posted a Firefox 3 SlackBuild to that thread. I use it myself.

markluocanada · 01-17-2009, 08:36 PM

Thanks dugan for the reply,

To write that script is quite intimidating to me now, and still on the learning stage.

In terms of firefox, I think I will just stick to ff2 for while. and also I use opera most of the time, font is beautiful in opera.

Your posts in the "beautiful font in slackware 12.1" thread are really great.

Mark

dugan · 01-19-2009, 12:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dugan

As far as I know, the official OpenOffice.org binaries are compiled without Cairo support. That might be the reason for the ugly fonts.

I just tested this theory by building OpenOffice.org with the --with-system-cairo option. It made no difference whatsoever.

That was a vanilla, unpatched tarball from openoffice.org (not go-ooo, which I couldn't get to compile).