Issue 4522 - Poor Font Appearance in Linux
Summary: Poor Font Appearance in Linux
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 4726
Alias: None
Product: ui
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.0
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: not determined
Assignee: ulf.stroehler
QA Contact: issues@ui
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Reported: 2002-05-05 16:18 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2003-03-11 17:54 UTC (History)
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Description Unknown 2002-05-05 16:18:44 UTC 
Can someone please explain the poor appearance of the application fonts in Open 
Office on a Linux machine. That is, the fonts used in the application itself 
(menus, dialogs, status bars etc etc) not in documents spreadsheets etc.  Fonts 
look fine in other applications but NOT in Open Office. I am using Redhat 7.2 
Gnome
Comment 1 Unknown 2002-05-07 20:48:41 UTC 
Please take a look at the screenshots at issue 3798 if this 
is the same problem.
Comment 2 Unknown 2002-05-08 13:27:12 UTC 
This would appear to be the same/similar issue to 3789. I seem to 
remember that the final release prior to the final (642?) also had 
poor font clarity.
Comment 3 Unknown 2002-05-09 13:30:26 UTC 
 Have you checked the behavior with font sizes >= 16? I'd 
suggest if your problem does not appear for those bigger 
fonts we'll have a point to say 'yes it is the same'. 
If yes: What's you're version of X, glibc, gcc and where did 
you get your tt fonts from? 
 
If not: Your description does not reveal to much of what you 
want to say... 
 
(typo: it's 3798 and not 3789)
Comment 4 Unknown 2002-05-10 15:32:04 UTC 
The issue is that if I install a standard Red Hat Linux 7.2 
installation with X, Gnome and Open Office 1.0 the application fonts 
are poor. I am not getting fonts from anywhere other that what is 
supplied from either the Linux distribution or Open Office.  Once 
again, I am talking about the fonts as used in the application's 
interface and NOT in the documents, spreadsheets etc that are created 
by the application. I am led to believe that the font of the 
application is "embedded/part" of Open Office application and 
therefore it is not customizable.
Comment 5 Unknown 2002-05-18 22:58:26 UTC 
If you happen to have the font file soui.ttf from one of the previous
OO releases, or possibly the StarOffice 6.0 beta, use spadmin to add
that font to OpenOffice. This font provides the Andale Sans UI.
Comment 6 stefan.baltzer 2002-12-09 15:39:29 UTC 
Reassigned to Ulf.
Comment 7 ulf.stroehler 2003-01-28 15:55:28 UTC 
Without any detailed description nor screenshot, just complaining I
can't do anything for you.
Make sure you have read the "Font Problem Trouble Shooting" guide:
http://www.openoffice.org/files/documents/16/63/FontTroubleshooting.pdf?JServSessionIdservlets=u7et3lawl2

Duplicate to issue 4726.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 4726 ***
Comment 8 michael.bemmer 2003-03-11 17:15:56 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved duplicate
issues. Please see this posting for details. First step in IssueZilla is
unfortunately to set them to verified.
Comment 9 michael.bemmer 2003-03-11 17:54:29 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved duplicate
issues. Please see this posting for details.