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  1. Bug #54776
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 54776

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Lee.Tambiah (flossgeek) wrote : Re: [Edgy] font hinting does not work with libfreetype6 v. 2.2.1

- Using verdana fonts from msttcorefonts
- Font Rendering is set to Monochrome
- Smoothing set to none
- Hinting set to Full
- OpenOffice Tools>Options>View I tick the "Use system font for user interface" and uncheck "Screen font antialiasing".

Please note the above settings I have always used in previous versions of Ubuntu and all fonts in all packages displayed fine. It is only openoffice that is affected.

The attached screenshot shows openoffice.org writer and gedit using the same font being Verdana, notice the difference.