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  1. Bug #54776
  2. Comment #113

Comment 113 for bug 54776

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Gert Kulyk (gkulyk) wrote : Re: font hinting does not work with libfreetype6 v. 2.2.1

First, you'll need to download all rpm-files from the given location (the desktop-integration-packages are not necessecary for testing as well as the testtool package). Next you'll need to open a terminal and cd to the directory the downloaded files are and issue the following command:

"for PKG in *.rpm ; do rpm2cpio ${PKG} | cpio -i -d ; done"

This will unpack the rpm-files. You can start the app by issuing the following command:
PATH_TO_DOWNLOADED_FILES/opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice (-writer, -calc, -impress etc.). It will use your ~/.openoffice.org2 config-directory, so please back it up or use a clean account for testing.

Please do not try to make a system-wide-install and do not use them for production - e.g. word-import sometimes is unreliable in this build (but this seems not to be related to the cairotext-patch).

The main reason for this post was to mention the upstream-efforts in coping with this annoying issue, unfortunately it seems like it will not be included in upstream-2.4-release.

So I hope the members of the openoffice.org-scribblers-team will include the above mentioned patch for hardy. (It seems like fedora-cvs has an updated one for the 2.4-line to be included in fedora 9).