I started a previous thread on this a few days ago, and you should note that it even affects "decent" fonts.
You can see some of my screenshots at http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/openoffice You will note from the screenshots that the appearance is much better under Mandrake 8.1 than 8.2 (with a shared installation under a shared /opt with the same configuration for a user on a shared /home, with same fonts installed on both systems). Note that the screenshots of 1.0 and 641c are from the official OpenOffice.org builds, not Mandrake RPMs (just in case you thought it was a packaging mistake on the mdk side). The chances are that this is due to using different versions of freetype. This will hopefully be fixed when OpenOffice is linked against the system freetype, hopefully in -2mdk and hopefully soon. Buchan [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Yes, I have observed this with all versions of OpenOffice that I have >tried. I think one of the things SUN do with StarOffice is give it some >decent TrueType fonts (compare under <*Office>/share/fonts/truetype/). >Unfortunately, due to copyright on fonts etc, good fonts costs money >which is probably one of the reasons SUN charge for StarOffice. >Ed-T. >Nelson Bartley wrote: >>Heyo, >> >>I'm using a vanilla install of cooker Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 >>20020503 16:13 and I've installed OO.o 1.0, >>OpenOffice.org-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm and I must say the visual quality of >>the program is absolutely poor to pathetic. I've attached a small .png >>screen cap of it, using courier font and I'm wondering if this is common >>among other LM users, or if this could just be system specific. >> >> >>NB >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> <cid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>
