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  1. Bug #54776
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Comment 4 for bug 54776

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

Bug still there in 2.0.4~rc2. I'm no longer sure, if the above patch would fix the issue, since at least parts of it (I haven'n compared it line by line) are included in the version upstream.

A temporary workaround would be, to copy the libfreetype from the dapper-package as libfreetype.so.6 into the /usr/lib/openoffice/program -directory. This causes openoffice to render display-fonts as you were used to in Dapper.

There are patches in Fedora-cvs which are trying to include full fontconfig-support (the lack for it is another annoying issue) for ooo, maybe at least parts of them would be helpfull for this issue, too. I would try it on my own, but there is no reasonable way for doing so, since the compile-time for building this monster on my Celeron 500 with 256 MB ram would be eternal.