openoffice 2.x has a serious problem with font rendering in Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04
Bug #92693 reported by
Costa Matos
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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freetype (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
openoffice.org (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
OpenOffice 2.2 became available on feisty repos, and along with it, a serious font rendering issue that was present in 2.0 and corrected in 2.1.
The fonts look very bad, specially without antialiasing. To reproduce the problem just start OpenOffice writer and disable antialiased fonts.
Here's a screenshot of the problem
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Right you can see the BAD font rendering that plagued OOo 2.0 in Ubuntu, and now seems to be present again in 2.2.
Left is OOo 2.1, that renders fonts correctly, as you can see.
Edited title because the problem still persists.
Changed in openoffice.org: | |
assignee: | ccheney → nobody |
importance: | Medium → Undecided |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Changed in openoffice.org: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in freetype: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
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Yes I see bad font rendering on the menus and font selection drop down menus. I have left feisty with its default settings, (nothing has been changed). I have attached a screen shot to show the font rendering compared with gedit.
Where I have typed "test font" in the screen shot the font rendering seems fine, both gedit and OO used the Bitsream Vera Sans font type in this case.