Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 70373
Something wrong with fonts in OpenOffice GUI
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:03 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020724 Description of problem: The fonts used in the OpenOffice GUI are really ugly. It looks like they aren't hinted or something. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice-1.0.1-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start OpenOffice writer 2.Look at the font used for the menu 3. Actual Results: The font is barely legible. Looks like the hinting is disabled. Expected Results: Something looking better! Additional info: OpenOffice must include it's own renderer as the same fonts display ok non-anti-alised in gtk 1.4 applications. Was an option left out by mistake?
By default, OpenOffice looks for a font called "Andale Sans UI". When the font's not there, as is the case in limbo, it chooses something else which happens to be unreadable. Here is how to fix the UI font problem: 1- Go to Tools/Options/Font Replacement 2- Check the "Apply replacement table" box 3- Replace "Andale Sans UI" with "Helvetica" and check "Always" and "Screen". (the font names have to be typed in, as they won't appear in the list) Can this be integrated already set up in the rpm?
I've replaced the font with Nimbus Sans L, which makes it look like the Gnome2 apps. It's even anti-aliased. Helvetica didn't look very good on my pc (but Helvetic did).
I'm not talking about the default font used in the document window (although that needs fixing too...). I'm talking about the font that is used in the UI (the menus, dialog boxes, etc.). It doesn't antialias fonts used in the UI, so Nimbus Sans L doesn't look good there. For the document font, Nimbus Sans L is great, but for the UI, helvetica gives it the same look as the gtk 1 apps.
I'm talking about the UI fonts too. They're certainly anti-aliased here. I haven't done anything special, so I don't know why it's different for you.
openoffice-1.0.1-4 will have this fixed. Now, what are the preferences for the default document font (for various locales, the UI font needs to be different for different localizations too).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68953 ***