Slackware 13.0 openoffice fonts

daniil · 09-16-2009, 04:18 PM

Hi

My system is slackware 13.0 and kde 4.2.

My problem is the fonts in open office is ugly and looks different than in kde apps. Especially calibri font.

All anti-aliasing things are enabled, all windows fonts are installed, gtk-qt-engine also installed. So all looks great except fonts in openoffice (calibri especially).

Openoffice is build using slackbuild.

What can you suggest?

Regards

daniil · 09-16-2009, 04:20 PM

I have an image shows the difference but I think I can't post it.

w1k0 · 09-16-2009, 07:49 PM

Calibri, Candara, Consolas, Cambria, Constantia, and Corbel are typefaces distributed with Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007. These fonts don't occur in Linux. If you have them in your Windows or Microsoft Office go to the directory with these typefaces and run the commands:

Code:

cp *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF
cd /usr/share/fonts/TTF
mkfontscale .
mkfontdir .
/usr/bin/fc-cache -f

dugan · 09-16-2009, 08:06 PM

I've found that putting Xft.* settings in .Xdefaults works wonders for OpenOffice.org.

lestoil · 09-19-2009, 09:28 AM

alien bob also has a slackbuild dated 26/7/08 for msoffice fonts.

daniil · 09-19-2009, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lestoil

alien bob also has a slackbuild dated 26/7/08 for msoffice fonts.

I have found a problem it relates to calibri font rendering only in a non kde (qt) apps. If I type in english using calibri font it renders badly, so no hinting is used, if I use Russian language it is rendered perfectly. My locale is en_US.UTF-8.

daniil · 09-30-2009, 06:44 AM

Hi

My system is slackware 13.0 kde 4.2.3.

I have installed windows fonts, enabled byte interpreter in a freetype library, so I did everything to look my font great.

So they looks great in KDE and gtk application.

But problems is how they looks in openoffice. If I use hinting slight the fonts in open office doesn't looks sharp (so they looked incorrect) but if I use hinting full they looks correct, but KDE's fonts started to look incorrect (too thick).

And the second problem is Calibri font looks different if I type it in english or if I type it in russian, in a first case it isn't smooth and beautiful, but in a second case it looks correct.

The same happens in Microsoft office under wine.

What is the theory behind the openoffice font rendering?

Please, give me some suggests.

XavierP · 09-30-2009, 03:37 PM

Daniil - since your new thread is identical to your old one, with a little more details, I have merged the two threads.

vss2094 · 09-30-2009, 04:27 PM

@ w1ko

I too found windowz fonts looking different whenever I opened my documents in Open Office.

But it works fine now.