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

On 10/04/2011 11:12 AM, NoOp wrote:
> 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/
...
> 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.

Did that & doesn't seem to make much difference. OTF font renders
considerably cleaner.





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