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Antialiasing is also disabled on color displays of 8 bit depth (8 bit PseudoColor visuals). Antialiasing is not used when detects the X Rendering extension (Render) together with a Xinerama extension. "OpenSymbol" ships with and should be displayed antialiased.įor proper antialiasing use XFree86, revisions 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.1, or 4.2 (or higher). Have a close look if the font "OpenSymbol" is available and appears antialiased. If in doubt you can use the "xmag" program to magnify the shown font sample. If one of them is antialiased, antialiasing works in principle. In that tab you can select all available fonts in different faces (regular, bold, italic. To examine the complete set of fonts you need to open the "Format -> Character" dialog and select the "Font" tab. A fast way to check is to open the font list box and browse through the list of fonts. To check for antialiased fonts open a writer document. The interface font is selected by font shapes and does not prioritize antialiasing. Therefore, just seeing your user interface font rendered without Antialiasing is not enough to conclude that the antialiasing engine is malfunctioning.

Antialiasing is either provided by the X Rendering extension of an XFree86 XServer or by drawing text by means of getting and putting images (XGetImage/XPutImage) from and to the window. While it is possible to have FreeType rasterized fonts displayed antialiased this functionality isn't not implemented for XFonts.Īlso, not all displays allow antialiasing. uses XFonts as well as fonts that are rendered through FreeType as explained below.

Adding TrueType or Type1 fonts to įonts aren't displayed antialiased but appear crisp Background.

Bad quality of screen font rasterization.

Antialiased fonts are gone on second and forthcoming start of application.

The pattern "openoffice_dir" refers to the directory of your installation. To suggest enhancements, corrections or additions please write a mail to. Nevertheless don't expect it to be complete or error free.

This guide is written with the intention to be useful. If you have problems with older versions please update to the current stable release first and see if the problem has already been fixed. The problems described here refer to versions 641D and 1.0 on the Linux and the Solaris platform. This guide tries to give hints and backgrounds for the most frequent reported problems together with rules of thumb to get over them. If you find instances that need updating, let us know by sending a note to See the OpenOffice FAQ page on our official wiki Most of the information is now out of date. These faq have been compiled over the span of OpenOffice's lifetime.