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jub0r
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 Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 12:15 am Post subject: OpenOffice.org trick |
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I've been working for a week now on various font problems in OOo. I finaly found out about setting | Code: | | LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreetype.so |
That made my fonts look good under write, but quite right under calc. It was ok enough that I decided to live with it.
Then, I stumbled accross an option under Tools > Options > spreadsheet > General called "use printer metrics for text formatting" When I unchecked this, the fonts straigtened up and didn't have wierd gaps anymore.
I just thought I'd share since I couldn't find any mention of this setting in the forums. Maybe it was only a problem for me because of my printer driver. (Epson C80) |
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ghetto
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 5:40 am Post subject: |
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In what file do you set "LD_PRELOAD"?
Could you explain a bit more?
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jub0r
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 5:50 am Post subject: |
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There may be a simpler way but, I made a little script to execute the programs.
| Code: | #!/bin/bash
# set's LD_PRELOAD to my freetype library 2.1.3 so I have good fonts in OOo
# usage: oowrapper (desired office program)
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.2
exec /usr/OpenOffice.org1.0.2/program/$1 |
So, if I run /usr/OpenOffice.org1.0.2/program/oowrapper scalc
It will run scalc with the LD_PRELOAD variable set. It works good except for fonts are blank that are not anti-aliased.
I guess it's a known bug with openoffice.org and freetype 2.1.3 |
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Vancouverite
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 7:58 am Post subject: |
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This adjustment can be applied to the ooffice script in /usr/bin which is what the OpenOffice sym links in /usr/bin point to. Another trick with OpenOffice is to execute a strip --strip-all on all the binaries and libraries in /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.2/program. This shaves about 5.5MB off the total size of the package. Also the "smooth" USE flag when emerging freetype fetches the hacked freetype lib which renders fonts very nicely. It also helps to have some nice fonts 
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ghetto
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 10:37 am Post subject: |
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I tried `emerge freetype -pv` but it did not show the "smooth" USE variable so i checked the ebuild itself to confim and it _is_ there, so i emerged with "smooth" then adjusted LD_PRELOAD, then striped Openoffice, and everything runs fine.
The fonts do look a little smaller and cleaner now.
Thanks.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 11:17 am Post subject: |
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ghetto... glad it worked for you. The page for the freetype hack that "smooth" installs is here. I used to install it manually until "smooth" appeared. I should start a thread about using strip because I've got the best performance to date out of XFree86 4.3.0 by modifying the ebuild to --strip-all (with some other changes too).
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jub0r
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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I just upgraded to the 644m4 release and the problem with fonts less than 10 points or so dissappearing is gone. I still have to do the LD_PRELOAD thing to get the best looking fonts but, I can see even the 6point ones.
Of course, who knows how many problems this unstable snapshot is going to cause me. |
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popopo_
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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Are you sure the "smooth" USE variable still exists ?
emerge -vp freetype gives me
[ebuild R ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.3-r2 -doc
And no sign of "smooth" on http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 1:40 am Post subject: |
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| ghetto wrote: | | I tried `emerge freetype -pv` but it did not show the "smooth" USE variable so i checked the ebuild itself to confim and it _is_ there, |
Yes I'm sure.
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