Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 2728
Better antialiased font support
Last modified: 2003-03-11 17:59:29 UTC
The antialising logic have apparently been changed since 638; the menus are no longer antialiased (see the URL for a screenshot). I can get the antialised fonts back on, however, by issuing 109% scale in the options. This is probably because my XftConfig disable antialiasing between 9-12 points: # Many scalable fonts have been optimized for 9-12 pts and # look better without antialiasing in those sizes: match any family == "*" edit antialias = true; match all size > 8 all size < 13 edit antialias = false; I guess the program now respects XftConfig better than before, which is a definately good thing. The UI experience from using the new version, however, is worse than before. To fix this, I suggest the following to be added to [menu]/tools/options/OpenOffice.org/view/: + Menu font [ .. dropdown list ... ] + Menu font size Also, since many fonts better with antialiasing on when scaled very small, as well as very large, in addition to "screen font antialiasing / from [8] pixels", there should be: + to [12] pixels
Reassigned to Ulf.
US->HDU: Perhaps we could provide further configuration items in the future for: - Autohinting On/Off (for a range of fontsizes) - Antialiasing overrules Autohinting (for a range of fontsizes) - Antialiasing overrules included bitmaps (for a range of fontsizes)
The main problem here seems to be that only client side fonts can be antialised, not the normal X11 fonts. For some reason an X11 font was chosen for the menus. In StarOffice the menu font is "Andale Sans UI", but it cannot be shipped with OpenOffice. Does using a font replacement Tools -> Options -> Office -> FontReplacement for "Andale Sans UI" to e.g. "Tahoma" help? (when Tahoma.ttf is in the X11 font path) PL is working on improving the font replacement configuration.
HDU->PL: You implemented the font fallback lists. Having the system default fonts in them would help. A case for FontConfig font discovery.
Using XftConfig is on our ToDo list *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 8144 ***
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As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved duplicate issues. Please see this posting for details.