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Old 07-09-2007, 05:31 PM   #1
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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
 
Old 07-09-2007, 05:54 PM   #2
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There is an antialiasing setting in options. That should improve it.
 
Old 07-10-2007, 06:25 AM   #3
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That option was already on and they still look poor
 
Old 07-10-2007, 06:39 AM   #4
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Does the slackbuild include the fonts needed? Might be worth checking out the OO package that Robby Workman made:

http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/
 
Old 07-10-2007, 06:52 AM   #5
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well i have the fonts that slack installed and about 590 i copied over from windows pc - but i'll re-check
 
Old 07-10-2007, 08:07 AM   #6
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How about recompiling freetype for BCI and re-installing the OO fonts with spadmin. There is a slackbuild on the installation Cds
 
Old 07-10-2007, 08:18 AM   #7
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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
 
Old 07-10-2007, 08:32 AM   #8
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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'.

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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.
I haven't had the chance to try it out yet
 
Old 07-10-2007, 08:49 AM   #9
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i will give it a go in a bit

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

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Old 07-10-2007, 09:11 AM   #10
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Look fine here. With Robbie Workman's oo package. My custom fonts are in ~/.fonts/ttf with an entry in xorg.conf.
 
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i used his build script to make open office package and installed that, maybe i should grab the package he made instead
 
Old 07-10-2007, 09:44 AM   #12
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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.
 
Old 07-10-2007, 09:55 AM   #13
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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
 
Old 07-10-2007, 02:30 PM   #14
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I have now tried reinstalling the fonts with spadmin and it isn't any prettier
 
Old 07-10-2007, 04:05 PM   #15
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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.
 
  


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