FS#10234 - Openoffice fonts wrong antialiasing (subpixel smoothing)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Federico Stafforini (fede) - Sunday, 20 April 2008, 15:27 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 22:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
Openoffice are not properly antialiased on LCD screens with subpixel smoothing turned on.

Ubuntu Hardy has fixed this issue; there seemingly is a Fedora patch which addresses this. More info here:

Reports of nice openoffice fonts in ubuntu, including arch users which are using the patch in arch:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4750174
"complaints":
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43342

I attach screenshots of openoffice calc vs gnumeric in Arch and in Ubuntu.

The point is that in arch openoffice does not respect subpixel smoothing settings as expected whereas in ubuntu hardy it does, or at least does a *much* better job at it. )

Additional info:
Package: openoffice-base 2.4.0-1 and previous versions

Steps to reproduce:
Start openoffice on an lcd screen with subpixel smoothing turned on. Compare with similar gnome or kde app & see the diffence.
   openoffice_arch.png (173.2 KiB)
   openoffice_kubuntu_hardy.png (470.5 KiB)
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 22:15 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 21 April 2008, 03:17 GMT
i can't see any difference here running Opera 9.50 x86_64 and Xfce on a 17" tft.
Comment by Federico Stafforini (fede) - Monday, 21 April 2008, 03:52 GMT
Do you mean gnumeric and oo calc look the same in BOTH images for you? They look the same in the kubuntu image for me, they don't in arch (ie gnumeric looks fine in arch and similar to kubuntu, but openoffice looks different both from any gnumeric and from kubuntu's gnumeric). That's really weird, if your monitor can mask the difference: you're seeing images from my screen which are obviously different here, if it were the programs running on your system it might be my own problem in misconfiguring the system, but that's out of the question when you're seeing my images...

What can I say, I've just shown this to two other persons and they agree they DO look quite different.

Just a stupid question: are you seeing them at 100% zoom?

Thanks
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 22:15 GMT
hm. my eyes must getting older. i would call Arch OOo fonts a bit tighter but more sharp than in tho other screenshot. I can't see what could be wrong with your fonts. They look good. At least I'd perfer the OOo fonts over the gnumeric you showed in your Arch screenshot. And even the Arch fonts look better than the XXX one.

But your are right. Ubuntu builds OOo in a much different way. Feel free to compare their build instructions with our simple (and still customizable) PKGBUILD. Going to close this one as "not a bug".

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