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

On 10/04/2011 06:48 PM, Jonathan Schultz wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yes it does work with other fonts, including Biolinum O and Libertine O. 
> But those are not the same as the Graphite fonts, they don't do the 
> glyph and kerning and other pretty things. I can certainly live with 
> them for on-screen editing, but it would still be nice to have the 
> Graphite versions working properly.

I find the Graphite fonts defective.

Here is a screenshot of the LO built-in versions when printed via
cups-pdf (compared to otf):

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/51/screenshot2ll.png/

And here's a screenshot from LO 3.4.3:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/72/screenshotlibertine343o.png/

click on the image to enlarge.

It's easy to see the difference between the G and the O versions. I find
that same when printing directly to the printer.

> > 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:
>
> Those fonts don't even exist in my LO - presumably it's a Debian choice 
> not to ship them. I've installed them manually. 

Where did you install them from  & where did you put them?

If LO is installed directly they are in the /opt folders:
$ ls /opt/libreoffice3.4/basis3.4/share/fonts/truetype
DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf           GenBkBasB.ttf
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf                  GenBkBasI.ttf
DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf  GenBkBasR.ttf
DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold.ttf         LiberationMono-BoldItalic.ttf
DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique.ttf      LiberationMono-Bold.ttf
DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf              LiberationMono-Italic.ttf
DejaVuSans-ExtraLight.ttf            LiberationMono-Regular.ttf
DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf       LiberationSans-BoldItalic.ttf
DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf              LiberationSans-Bold.ttf
DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf           LiberationSans-Italic.ttf
DejaVuSansMono.ttf                   LiberationSansNarrow-BoldItalic.ttf
DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf               LiberationSansNarrow-Bold.ttf
DejaVuSans.ttf                       LiberationSansNarrow-Italic.ttf
DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.ttf           LiberationSansNarrow-Regular.ttf
DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf                 LiberationSans-Regular.ttf
DejaVuSerifCondensed-BoldItalic.ttf  LiberationSerif-BoldItalic.ttf
DejaVuSerifCondensed-Bold.ttf        LiberationSerif-Bold.ttf
DejaVuSerifCondensed-Italic.ttf      LiberationSerif-Italic.ttf
DejaVuSerifCondensed.ttf             LiberationSerif-Regular.ttf
DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf               LinBiolinumG_Bd.ttf
DejaVuSerif.ttf                      LinBiolinumG_It.ttf
fc_local.conf                        LinBiolinumG_Re.ttf
GenBasBI.ttf                         LinLibertineG_Bd.ttf
GenBasB.ttf                          LinLibertineG_BI.ttf
GenBasI.ttf                          LinLibertineG_It.ttf
GenBasR.ttf                          LinLibertineG_Re.ttf
GenBkBasBI.ttf                       opens___.ttf

When I tested I removed all and installed directly to ~/.fonts

> Maybe I should ask the 
> question on a Debian list?

Might be a good idea. However "Where did you install them from  & where
did you put them?" might give a clue as to what you have installed.

> Still, what is strange is that the Graphite fonts work fine (ie with 
> anti-aliasing) in other applications such as PDF viewers and the font 
> viewer, just not in LO.

PDF viewers (Adobe, Evince, etc) will show the rendered output from the
system print & isn't related (as far as I know) to the application
screen render. When you tried the
'Tools|Options|LibreOffice|View|uncheck 'Screen font antialiasing' did
the screen Graphite fonts change in LO?



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