Issue 3718 - Antialiasing not working
Summary: Antialiasing not working
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: ui
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 641
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: not determined
Assignee: ulf.stroehler
QA Contact: issues@ui
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Reported: 2002-03-29 11:26 UTC by tomee
Modified: 2003-07-25 10:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description tomee 2002-03-29 11:26:08 UTC 
I have just installed OpenOffice641 on my laptop computer, and nor the antialiasing works neither can I use TrueType fonts installed on the system. 
Both of these are possible with OpenOffice638 on my desktop computer. I am running KDE on either one, and the antialiasing works fine there.
The only difference on the laptop I can think of is sub-pixel antialiasing (RGB antialiasing instead of greyscale). Can this be causing the problem?
Without antialiasing and TTF fonts OpenOffice is pretty much unusable for me.

Thanks in avdance,
Tom.
Comment 1 vincenegri 2002-04-17 19:21:53 UTC 
I'm seeing a very similar problem running Suse 7.3 with Geforce2 graphics 
card
(nivida drivers). The anti-aliasing option is available, but has no 
effect.
Unfortunately I don't have an earlier build to compare.

Antialiasing 
in KDE
2.2.2 is working perfectly - I've downloaded the official Freetype update 
from Suse's
YOU service, btw.

Another Suse 7.3 user isn't having this problem, 
so perhaps
it's related to the specific X server?
Comment 2 tomee 2002-04-17 19:24:49 UTC 
FYI, Not using XFS to provide fonts but using FontDir helped. 
Mandrake is *VERY* strange in terms of fonts, by the way.
Comment 3 vincenegri 2002-04-19 20:35:02 UTC 
As I've noted on a related issue, in my case it was because I was running X in 16bpp. 
Switching to 24bpp gave lovely AA fonts :-)

But why doesn't oo support AA fonts at 
16bpp? KDE can manage it...
Comment 4 stefan.baltzer 2002-04-23 13:27:47 UTC 
Reassigned to Ulf.
Comment 5 ulf.stroehler 2002-11-28 16:02:27 UTC 
Pls. verify in OOo643.
You may also want to have a look for your issue at the OOo Font
Trouble Shooting Guide:
http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html
us->hdu: any update on this issue?
Comment 6 hdu@apache.org 2002-12-18 08:11:06 UTC 
With libXRender from XFree<=4.1.0 there was a problem, where the  
correct function call to query if there is a "8bit, alpha only"  
picture format reported, that none is available. Since this 
picture format is essential for text AA XRender wasn't used 
for accelerating antialiased text. 
  
OOo doing Xlib based AA is currently only possible with truecolor  
(i.e. 24/32bit color or 8bit grayscale) visuals. Having Xlib based  
AA on 15 or 16bit displays is planned, but not at a very high  
priority. The rationale behind this, that a computer with an old  
release of XFree/XRender and with less than 24bit color is quite  
probably too slow anyway to do Xlib based GetImage/PutImage 
antialiasing with acceptable performance.  
  
=> Upgrade to XFree>=4.2.0 or use a bit depth of more 24 or 32 bits.
Comment 7 hdu@apache.org 2003-07-25 09:22:57 UTC 
HDU->US: overdue for verification and closing...
Comment 8 ulf.stroehler 2003-07-25 10:14:50 UTC 
Tomasz,
this should be fixed in OOo1.1.
Setting to verified and closing.
Feel free to reopen if you have any objections.
Comment 9 ulf.stroehler 2003-07-25 10:15:07 UTC 
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Comment 10 ulf.stroehler 2003-07-25 10:15:32 UTC 
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