[libreoffice-users] Re: No anti-aliasing with Graphite fonts

On 10/03/2011 07:30 PM, Jonathan Schultz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Hoping this is the right forum, I wanted to ask if anyone could help me 
> get anti-aliasing to work with Graphite fonts (Linux Biolinum G and 
> Linux Libertine G) on LibreOffice. Without anti-aliasing it looks pretty 
> terrible on-screen, but still very nice when exported or printed. The 
> OpenType versions of the same fonts work fine (though without the 
> Graphite good stuff) as do the Graphite fonts in other applications that 
> I have tried.
>
> My system is Debian unstable, LibreOffice 3.4.3 but the problem appears 
> on my other Debian boxes running Debian stable and OpenOffice 3.2.1.
...
You can easily see if on screen antialiasing is working:
Tools|Options|LibreOffice|View|uncheck 'Screen font antialiasing' and
click OK. You should notice a considerable difference.

That said, I find the fonts Linux Biolinum G and
Linux Libertine G ttf fonts provided as defaults in LO do have rendering
problems (particularly when viewed at standard 12 pt). They also seem to
have odd version numbers with compared with the fonts from:
http://www.linuxlibertine.org/
  http://www.linuxlibertine.org/index.php?id=91&L=1

<http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxlibertine/files/linuxlibertine/5.1.3-2/>
or
http://www.numbertext.org/linux/

You might want to give the Linux Biolinum O and
Linux Libertine O OTF fonts a try instead; those render much cleaner
(screen and print) for me on Ubuntu 10.10.
(LinLibertineOTF_5.1.3_2011_06_21.tgz)
Do a sample document using G & O and pay particular attention to the
capital 'T' in the Libertine fonts. I just did a simple test doc:

This is  a test using Linux Libertine G.

This is a test using Linux Libertine O.

This is a test using Linux Biolinum G.

This is a test using Linux Biolinum O.

This is a test using Times New Roman.

and can spot the differences. The LO Libertine G is missing glyphs.

If I get time later, I'll rip out the LO versions in
/opt/libreoffice3.4/basis3.4/share/fonts and replace with the other TTF
versions to see if the issue is just the TTF conversion, or the LO version.




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