open office fonts look bad
 

having just built open office using the slackbuild from slackbuilds.org, i have noticed that the menus and fonts in open office look extremly bad, is there a way to change this - i have looked in preferences but whatever i seem to do has no effect, and its starting to hurt my eyes to look at the program

There is an antialiasing setting in options. That should improve it.

That option was already on and they still look poor :(

Does the slackbuild include the fonts needed? Might be worth checking out the OO package that Robby Workman made:

http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/

well i have the fonts that slack installed and about 590 i copied over from windows pc ;) - but i'll re-check

How about recompiling freetype for BCI and re-installing the OO fonts with spadmin. There is a slackbuild on the installation Cds

thats the first thing i do with any slack release, the fonts in slackware itself are looking good, just in open office they look poor,

OO fonts with spadmin - you lost me there

Well I have also noticed that Open Office doesn't look as good as the rest of the instsllation. I found this to be the case on 11 as well.

While googling today I found this suggestion in an article 'Fabulous fonts in Linux'.

I haven't had the chance to try it out yet

i will give it a go in a bit :D

edit did that both as user and root and still the toolbar and fonts look ugly :( yet when i used ubuntu they looked great, i dont know , fonts have to be linuxes major stalling point i feel

Look fine here. With Robbie Workman's oo package. My custom fonts are in ~/.fonts/ttf with an entry in xorg.conf.

i used his build script to make open office package and installed that, maybe i should grab the package he made instead

Btw I'm using the version of fontconfig that has subpixel rendering and anti-aliasing compiled in. But if I remember rightly OO looked ok with the standard fontconfig package.

i tried With Robbie Workman's oo package and got the same result, i have rebuilt freetype using the patches in the freetype source directory on my local slackware mirror, i have compiled subpixel rendering and anti-aliasing, the rest of slackware is fine its just open office that looks cack :(

I have now tried reinstalling the fonts with spadmin and it isn't any prettier

OO.org doesn't use the system freetype and fontconfig - that is one of the reasons why it can't handle OTF fonts under Linux.