Bugzilla – Bug 181788
Openoffice UI Fonts looks ugly (not anti-aliased) when using MS Core Fonts
Last modified: 2006-06-08 11:35:56 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.
Created attachment 87162 [details] Screenshot showing the problem
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.
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”).
Created attachment 87936 [details] Menu Help from OOo by xmag
Created attachment 87937 [details] Menu Help from File Browser by xmag
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?
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 ...
See bug #118131.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118131 ***