Ugly fonts, especially Luxi Sans (on Gentoo)

philip_n · General User Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Posts: 5

I have been using Openoffice for quite a long time. In a recent upgrade of my system the fonts in Openoffice has become ugly. Many fonts are jagged and an even non-uniform in black. Times New Roman in nearly OK but many other font are far from pleasant to look at. Especially Luxi Sans is bad. And this is very strange because this is the font that previoulsy showed best in my OpenOffice environment.

Has anyone else experienced this? I use Gentoo Linux. These are the fonts I have in my xorg.config

floris_v · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 1:20 pm Post subject:

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philip_n · General User Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Posts: 5

I followed this advice: http://www.kev009.com/wp/2009/12/getting-beautiful-fonts-in-gentoo-linux/

I discovered I had not set the follwing USE flags type1 cleartype corefonts and I did so by:

# euse --enable type1 cleartype corefonts

When I came to the step of rebuilding packages with emerge -uDNa world, my system indicated that x11-libs/cairo needed to be re-built. After doing this the fonts in Openoffice improved radically, especially the Luxi Sans that I have had problems with.