Menu Font In Openoffice 2.3 On 10.3 Not Antialiased

Hi!

I have just installed the brand new OpenSuse 10.3 on my machine. The menu font of OpenOffice is not antialiased and looks rather horrible. I have tried to turn on and off "use system fonts" and I have also tried to use a font replacement table (replace "Andale Sans UI" with Arial or whatever) to no avail. Anitaliasing works fine otherwise throughout the system (KDE).

Does anybody have a similar problem and a fix for it?

Cheers Juergen

Hi!

I have just installed the brand new OpenSuse 10.3 on my machine. The menu font of OpenOffice is not antialiased and looks rather horrible. I have tried to turn on and off "use system fonts" and I have also tried to use a font replacement table (replace "Andale Sans UI" with Arial or whatever) to no avail. Anitaliasing works fine otherwise throughout the system (KDE).

Does anybody have a similar problem and a fix for it?

Cheers Juergen
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I downloaded the source of freettype2 and compiled it. I then disabled use systemfonts and use the font replacement table to have "Andale Sans UI" replaced by Nimbus Sans and that looks alright... So kinda solved I guess...

I also tried the sub pixel hinting enabled freetype which id do anything on my machine...

Cheers Juergen

you dont have to compile..
I dont know how to set this from GUI, i am sure there is some option, but you can modify the file:

/usr/share/fonts-config/suse-hinting.conf.template

****** <bool>true</bool>
****************</edit>
****************<edit name="hintstyle">
********<const>hintfull</const>

to

****** <bool>true</bool>
****************</edit>
****************<edit name="hintstyle">
**** <const>hintnone</const>

Then run as root: SuSEconfig
this will make your kdm fonts look good too. I am trying to figure out a way to do this through YaST2 as well.
But till then, I think this should be good enough to get the crisp beautiful fonts.

you dont have to compile..
I dont know how to set this from GUI, i am sure there is some option, but you can modify the file:

/usr/share/fonts-config/suse-hinting.conf.template

****** <bool>true</bool>
****************</edit>
****************<edit name="hintstyle">
********<const>hintfull</const>

to

****** <bool>true</bool>
****************</edit>
****************<edit name="hintstyle">
**** <const>hintnone</const>

Then run as root: SuSEconfig
this will make your kdm fonts look good too. I am trying to figure out a way to do this through YaST2 as well.
But till then, I think this should be good enough to get the crisp beautiful fonts.
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hi!
Well thanks a lot!! This is great to know. Now fonts look as good as they did under 10.2.

Thanks,
Juergen