Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
Summary: | True Type fonts display poorly on Linux | ||
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Product: | ui | Reporter: | des <des> |
Component: | ui | Assignee: | mci <michael.cziebalski> |
Status: | CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE | QA Contact: | issues@ui <issues> |
Severity: | Trivial | ||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | issues |
Version: | OOo 1.1 RC3 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Linux, all | ||
Issue Type: | DEFECT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- |
Developer Difficulty: | --- |
Description
des
2003-08-16 02:01:54 UTC
I believe this is a freetype issue. It is not present with Lycoris which displays the fonts perfectly. Hi, I think you are right that this is a system freetype issue. It works fine with my PPC Linux build as well. The bug reporter may want to upgrade to a newer version of freetype and see if that helps. Kevin I'm not convinced that this is a system font issue, although I haven't been able to spend much time investigating it. I'm on Mandrake 9.1, with all the latest patches, so, as far as I know, I have the latest freetype libraries, which it would appear are the core of this issue. There may be a later non-Mandrake version, and I will look into that, hopefully tomorrow, Sept. 5th (the laptop is at work). I've downloaded and compiled the freetype2 2.1.4 tarball (Mandrake 9.1 shipped with 2.1.3). I see a slight improvement when using the Bitstream fonts; however, the Times New Roman display is still very poor. Note: I found a version of libfreetype.so.6 in both /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1/program/filter and /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1/program. I renamed them so that OOo would pick up the version in /usr/lib. I now have a RedHat 9 installation on my home desktop, as well as the Mandrake 9.1 on this laptop - and the RH font display looks fine. RedHat ships with freetype-2.1.3-6, while Mandrake has: rpm -qa |grep freetype freetype2-2.1.3-12mdk freetype-1.3.1-18mdk freetype-tools-1.3.1-18mdk freetype2-devel-2.1.3-12mdk As can be seen from the above, Mandrake has a completely different set-up, and would seem therefore to be the culprit. If another Mandrake user could confirm this it would help... Also, does anyone know if I can rpm -e the Mandrake RPMs and apply the stock rpm as shipped with RH? reassigned to mci Since this seems to be a freetype item I'm going to close this Issue now... closing @des: You may have a look to your distributors homepage or other sites (freshmeat.net, rpmfind.net,...) |