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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
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'.
Quote:
For OpenOffice.org you need to install the fonts again manually. Go to your OO.o directory and execute the file, spadmin. Go to Fonts, Add, and choose the source directory, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype.
When the fonts are visible in the window, click on 'Select All' and
then 'OK'. You'll then be given a choice of copying the fonts to your OO.o directory or linking to them. Either will work.
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
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
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