Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 291
Default is way to small
Last modified: 2003-12-06 14:52:32 UTC
OpenOffice 614, Linux, displayed on Linux XFree86 4.0. The default font is so small that it is nearly invisible. Redirecting the display to a Xsun server shows correct behaviour.
Problem was the wrong fonts.dirs - because not all fonts are available in OpenOffice. Should be fixed from Tom Verbeek.
Please don't assume "should be fixed". It isn't fixed, it's hacked. see extras/unx/source/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir Rev. 1.2.4.1 for the hack. That's no final solution.
TH->TV: -> Your part
hmm, I'll accept this issue although I don't know the resolution yet...
CP->TV: The problem is the file share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir which includes the andale font for both SO and OO. The font is not open source so it is not included in OO. You have to maintain a fonts.dir for OO without andale and one for SO with andale. The current "solution" was to hack or to branch the fonts.dir for each and every OO release.
The newly acquired fonts for StarOffice 6 cannot be opensourced. Therefore they are not available. Since all old fonts have been removed there is no need for a fonts.dir on OOo. We removed the old fonts and the fonts.dir starting SRC632.
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