Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 3754
anti-aliasing of menu-font
Last modified: 2002-09-20 22:54:33 UTC
OO.o should (optionally) use anti-aliasing for the menu-font as well as for the document fonts. This was the case with build 638 and is currently misteriously present in the captions of the configure-dialog To clarify this: the menu entries of OO.o look really bad when they contain umlauts like ü (udiaresis) or similar. I'd like to use another font instead of the default Tahoma one but all of my currently installed fonts (that are in question for this task) look ugly without anti-aliasing. I tried to adjust the limit for the font-size but with no succes (with build 638 the menu fonts were anti-aliased with a minimum size of 11) I looked for an option in the Tools|Configure dialog and then noticed that the 'captions' of the descriptions of each 'module' (OpenOffice.org, Textdocument, Spreasdheet,...) are anti-aliased, but the remainder is not. Maybe that the font-render-engine just doesn't know about the size of the menu- and ui-elements so that these never exceed the size limit? (641d, german build)
*** Issue 3755 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 3756 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Hi, You may want to see my answer to Issue 3745 which tells how to change the ui/menu font to something that is anti-aliased on your machine. Kevin
I didn't have problems changing the font for the ui/menu so this Issue didn't solve mine. On my system no font is anti-aliased (I'm using gnome and for other apps I don't need font anti-aliasing) I'll add some screenshots (magnified using xmag) to better letting you know what I want. OO.o doesn't display the fonts like other applikations do. Therefore I cannot use Verdana for OO.o because OO.o uses strange looking umlauts (see screenshots). If you can tell me how to configure OO.o to display Verdana like my other gnome-apps (eg the font-selector) do please tell me.
Created attachment 1294 [details] verdana font displayed by gnome font selector
Created attachment 1295 [details] verdana font displayed by OO.o in the menubar (notice the umlaut and g)
Created attachment 1296 [details] Tools|Configure with verdana font and aa turned off
Created attachment 1297 [details] Tools|Configure with aa - the Caption is anti-aliased, the ramainder is not
TM->FT: This one is a wish for an enhancement or a feature, so please have a look, thanks !
Hi, we actually had early builds that use AA font by default! Now here's the reason why we skipped AA for UI font: It is simply not readable! It's blurry and in case of more complex fonts (Chinese, Japanese) it becomes even unreadable. That why we turned it down (of course you can still use the OS to do so). BTW, give ClearType from Windows XP a try, you think you need glasses after turning it on! Our UI looked similar. Regards Falko
But why does verdana viewed with gnome-font-selector looks so different from OO.o's version when using the font substitution with verdana as the menu font? (see attachments verdana_system.png and verdana_ooo.png)
Reopen issue to ask this question since 'resolved' issues don't show up in the default query: But why does verdana viewed with gnome-font-selector looks so different from OO.o's version when using the font substitution with verdana as the menu font? (see attachments verdana_system.png and verdana_ooo.png)
In the meantime, I found out myself why the fonts look that different. (see issue 3745) And I'll mark this as a duplicate of the bug I found the solution. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 3745 ***
as stated before: closing this one