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  1. Bug #54776
  2. Comment #60

Comment 60 for bug 54776

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Michael Milligan (milli) wrote : Re: [Edgy] font hinting does not work with libfreetype6 v. 2.2.1

Well, same problem here. Fonts are fine in all other apps except OO. They looked really terrible in OO after first upgrading from dapper to edgy.

After reading all the comments here, I grabbed libfreetype6 from dapper (2.1.10-1ubuntu2.2), unpacked it (dpkg -x ...), copied libfreetype6.so.6.3.8 to /usr/lib, manually fixed the libfreetype6* symlinks, and that still didn't get it quite back to how it looked in Dapper, but a lot better. All other apps seem to be fine with this too (firefox, gaim, sticky notes, panels, etc..)

So, this is mainly something to do with how OO is rendering fonts in 2.0.4.