OK I got some pretty interesting news on this one. I played with the Fonts tab in gnome-appearance-properties. I was using the "Best shapes" option there, resulting in good fonts everywhere but in openoffice (please see the screenshot I attached in a previous post).
However, if I use the "Subpixel smoothing" setting, fonts in openoffice are back to normal !! I mean, they are not "bold" anymore. Alas, they are in grayscale, no subpixel smoothing. This is odd. So to sum up things quickly : - regular grayscale smoothing "best shapes" in the settings --> ugly fonts in openoffice - subpixel smoothing in the settings --> regular grayscale smoothing in openoffice - regular grayscale smoothing "best contrast" in the settings --> regular grayscale smoothing in openoffice So there is a workaround for this bug. But it's still a bug ... -- openoffice 2.2 has a serious problem with font rendering in Ubuntu 7.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/92693 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
