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

On 10/04/2011 08:02 PM, Jonathan Schultz wrote:
> > It's easy to see the difference between the G and the O versions. I find
> > that same when printing directly to the printer.
>
> I'm not sure if you are suggesting that they should be the same. My 
> understanding is that they should not be the same, because the OTF 
> versions are missing the extra graphite features. An easy test it to try 
> typing "ff" in each of the fonts - in the graphite version the two "f"s 
> are closer together than in the OTF version and the second "f" is 
> slightly larger than the first.

Now I see what you mean. See the link to the screenshot below.

> > Where did you install them from&  where did you put them?
>
> I just naively installed them with the KDE font installer on one box, 
> and the Gnome font installer on the other. That seems to have put them 
> under /usr/local/share/fonts/

Got it.

> > If LO is installed directly they are in the /opt folders:
> > $ ls /opt/libreoffice3.4/basis3.4/share/fonts/truetype
>
> Obviously Debian puts these someplace else - I have no /opt/libreoffice* 
> directory. In fact AFAICT the LO that I have includes no fonts at all. 
> That is, I have grepped the file list from all

That is because your's is installed from the Debian repo & mine is
installed directly from LO.

> > When I tested I removed all and installed directly to ~/.fonts
>
> I have no ~/.fonts directory either.

I add a ~/.fonts folder so that I can easily add/remove fonts. It's
particularly helpful when testing fonts. Note that it's user specific &
not system-wide (i.e., available across multiple user accounts) as the
fonts do not get installed into /usr/share. If I like the font then I
will go ahead and install system-wide.

> > When you tried the
> > 'Tools|Options|LibreOffice|View|uncheck 'Screen font antialiasing' did
> > the screen Graphite fonts change in LO?
>
> Yes it did change. So it is doing some kind of anti-aliasing, but still 
> looks wrong. Is it worth my making a screenshot?

Not if it looks any different than this:
http://postimage.org/image/2apqbvxac/
Otherwise, yes it might be a good idea.
Note that I set the font size at 20 so that I could easily see the
difference.


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