User interface ignores 'native' hinter fontconfig setting

[vic-quakesrc]

The OO.org's UI font can't be rendered using FT2 TTF bytecode interpreter, even if the native hinter was selected in 'dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig'. OO.org always uses built-in FT2 autohinter.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

see http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2003/08/msg00203.html
for workarounds

[vic-quakesrc (vic-quakesrc)]

Similar bugzilla entry for Breezy:
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16704

Quoting the bug above:
add the line
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6
in the beginning of /usr/lib/openoffice2/program/soffice

I will try and see if it works for Dapper

[vic-quakesrc (vic-quakesrc)]

So my issue is quite the opposite to http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16704
I can't get the bytecode interpreter to work no matter what values the SAL_*_PRIORITY variables are set to. I don't recall this issue in Breezy.

[vic-quakesrc (vic-quakesrc)]

I think the issue is even worse.. Not only oo.o can't render fonts using bytecode interpreter, but looks like it can't do any hinting at all. Here's the screenshot:
http://hkitchen.quakesrc.org/scrn.png
and my /etc/fonts/local.conf
http://hkitchen.quakesrc.org/local.conf

[vic-quakesrc (vic-quakesrc)]

Ok, more on this.
This bug seems to affect only OpenOffice 2.0.2. Bytecode interpreted fonts worked correctly in 2.0.1 and it's very likely an upstream bug.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=33084&start=30

Please, do something about it, it makes OOo barely usable with bytecode interpreter enabled :(

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Does it work for you on Ubuntu 7.10? I'm not sure if I enabled autohinting properly on my system. It appears to be antialiased but I can't tell if it is doing what you want or not.

Thanks,
Chris