Bug 181788

Summary:	Openoffice UI Fonts looks ugly (not anti-aliased) when using MS Core Fonts
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Thiago Sayao <thiago.sayao>
Component:	OpenOffice.org	Assignee:	Petr Mladek <pmladek>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	mmeeks, suse-beta
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.1
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Screenshot showing the problem Menu Help from OOo by xmag Menu Help from File Browser by xmag

Description Thiago Sayao 2006-06-05 18:18:56 UTC

I've downloaded and installed the MS Core fonts and set my desktop to use the Tahoma font. Everything works fine except OO.org which doesn't seem to be anti-aliasing this font, the UI looks very ugly.
Take a look at the screenshot attached, the differece between the menu of OO.org and nautilus on the left.

Comment 1 Thiago Sayao 2006-06-05 18:20:02 UTC

Created attachment 87162 [details]
Screenshot showing the problem

Comment 2 Petr Mladek 2006-06-07 17:58:15 UTC

It is a pity. I was not aware about any special hacks necessary for OOo and MS fonts. I see that there was suggested one at http://en.opensuse.org/Optimal_Use_of_Fonts_on_SuSE#Settings_for_OpenOffice

Before I start to investigate it, I'll add our font expert into CC.

Mike, do you have any idea what could cause this problem? Note that it is in GNOME desktop.

Comment 3 Mike Fabian 2006-06-08 09:35:00 UTC

All fonts visible in the screen shot in comment #1 are anti-aliased,
including those in the menu of OpenOffice.

(You can see that easily by checking with “xmag”).

Comment 4 Petr Mladek 2006-06-08 10:23:09 UTC

Created attachment 87936 [details]
Menu Help from OOo by xmag

Comment 5 Petr Mladek 2006-06-08 10:23:44 UTC

Created attachment 87937 [details]
Menu Help from File Browser by xmag

Comment 6 Petr Mladek 2006-06-08 10:30:03 UTC

Hmm, it is antialiased in OOo. Though, it looks ugly. It looks quite strange if you compare the two magnified menus.

Mike, is this normal? Would be possible to improve it by some setting?

Comment 7 Mike Fabian 2006-06-08 10:38:40 UTC

There was a bug recently that OpenOffice doesn't use the fontconfig
system settings but forces it's own settings instead.  The reason
given was that the hinting settings can have an influence on line
spacing and this may distort the appearance of a document.  To
observer the spacing perfectly OpenOffice seems to force the hinting
to off. But then the glyphs don't look very nice of course.

I'm searching for that bug ...

Comment 8 Mike Fabian 2006-06-08 10:59:58 UTC

See bug #118131.

Comment 9 Mike Fabian 2006-06-08 11:35:56 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118131 ***