OpenOffice 2.0.4 and ugly fonts in UI

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prymitive · Post by **prymitive** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:53 pm

I compiled openoffice but I got ugly fonts in UI, I dig into it a little and it appears that oo works best with freetype 2.2.1 but this version is masked in portage, if You want to have better looking oo unamsk freetype 2.2.1 and upgrade or compile manualy freetype 2.2.1 and put it in /usr/local/lib, than run oo with LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so oo{writer2,draw2,whatever2}.

Konsti · Post by **Konsti** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:05 am

You could try OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome also. This changes the UI on my debian a bit, but the UI font is still ugly. Don't know why OOO has to have these ugly UI.

prymitive · Post by **prymitive** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:35 am

Konsti wrote:You could try OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome also. This changes the UI on my debian a bit, but the UI font is still ugly. Don't know why OOO has to have these ugly UI.

I guess that this forces oo to use gtk widgets, I'm using kde so I will stick with qt, I tried gtk widgets but that didn't change anything with fonts, switching to freetype 2.2.1 did the trick.

DerMojo · Post by **DerMojo** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:54 pm

OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde also works ...

prymitive · Post by **prymitive** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:56 pm

DerMojo wrote:OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde also works ...

and what more that a widgets for a given de will You get by that? I'm all about fonts in UI, not buttons and other controls.

Konsti · Post by **Konsti** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:22 pm

The environment variable changed the UI (which I did not attempt) and also the fint, so it looks a bit better.

Insanity5902 · Post by **Insanity5902** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:45 pm

prymitive wrote:
DerMojo wrote:OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde also works ...
and what more that a widgets for a given de will You get by that? I'm all about fonts in UI, not buttons and other controls.

It just doesn't change the widgets but grabs all the settings from that particular UI, otherwise it just uses java settings. Switching it to gnome or kde will use gtk or qt widgets and their current fonts settings, which might fix your font issues without having to emerge a ~ package

prymitive · Post by **prymitive** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:49 pm

Insanity5902 wrote:
prymitive wrote:
DerMojo wrote:OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde also works ...
and what more that a widgets for a given de will You get by that? I'm all about fonts in UI, not buttons and other controls.
It just doesn't change the widgets but grabs all the settings from that particular UI, otherwise it just uses java settings. Switching it to gnome or kde will use gtk or qt widgets and their current fonts settings, which might fix your font issues without having to emerge a ~ package

I'm running kde so openoffice uses kde settings, isn't it? My fonts have no antialiasing unless I load openoffice with freetype 2.2, it's not about settings for any DE.

Insanity5902 · Post by **Insanity5902** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:30 pm

If it matches your KDE desktop them yes, it is using KDE. Some WM don't report things correctly and this causes problems. FVWM is one none culprit, not sure it is their Fault or OpenOffice's or neither. But setting the OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP fixes a lot of visibility issues in OO.org

I didn't realize you were trying to get the antialias to work. That is a nice fix for it though.

kaktyc · Post by **kaktyc** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:35 pm

prymitive wrote:I compiled openoffice but I got ugly fonts in UI, I dig into it a little and it appears that oo works best with freetype 2.2.1 but this version is masked in portage, if You want to have better looking oo unamsk freetype 2.2.1 and upgrade or compile manualy freetype 2.2.1 and put it in /usr/local/lib, than run oo with LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so oo{writer2,draw2,whatever2}.

Hi! I tried new freetype but UI fonts still are ugly. Could you post screenshots before applying LD_PRELOAD hack and after?

prymitive · Post by **prymitive** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:50 pm

Check if You have antialiasing enabled (Options->View)

before: http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/5700/d7kp2.png

after: http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9417/d6xx9.png

kaktyc · Post by **kaktyc** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:45 pm

Yes, I have antialiasing enabled. I noticed that only Tahoma font has this problem. All other fonts look fine.

http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/4605/tahomacu4.png