Just forwarding a quick font fix for the Open Office dialogs that make it a bit more pleasing to the eye. The mandrake 9.0 betas have the RPM in the packages by default, but if you're running 8.2, heres the link to the OpenOffice mdk rpm.  Download the package that matches your platform.

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/243416/idpa/243416

Todd Franklin

Subject: OpenOffice dialog fonts fix...
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 02:06:25 -0500
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  You probably noticed that OpenOffice.org was still incredibly ugly. 
The actual text used in your document might look nice, but the user 
interface elements (dialog boxes, menus, the navigator and style list, 
etc) still look awful -- jagged and almost unreadable.

To fix it, fire up OO.o. Now click Tools ->  Options ->  Select OpenOffice.org in the tree view of the dialog that pops up. 
Under OO.o, select Font Replacement.

Next, click the box next to "Apply Replacement Table". In the Font 
pull-down box, manually type in "Andale Sans UI" (minus the quotes, of 
course). You can NOT select this font in the box, it's not there and 
must be entered manually. Next, pick a replacement font in the "Replace 
With" drop-down box. I suggest Helvetica (it looks great for me) but you 
should experiment til you get a look you like. Just click the checkmark 
by the "Replace With" box. Then, down beneath, make sure you've checked 
"Always" and "Screen". Click OK and see what the new user interface 
looks like. Repeat these steps until you find a font that doesn't look 
awful (though almost anything is an improvement over Andale Sans, IMNSHO).

Ah, that's better...


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