[libreoffice-users] Re: Font display in LibreOffice documents

On 4/15/11 1:06 PM, Sascha Vieweg wrote:
> Hello, being an extensive user of LibO rather than iWorks or MSO on my
> Mac (OS X 10.6.6), the (only) one thing that tempers delight is the
> "blurred" unsharp display of text in documents. Currently, I am writing
> rather long reports for my work, and I employed Latin Modern Roman
> (version 2 or so) 11pt as the main document text. (I was playing around
> with many more fonts, just to mention.) However, whatever font size,
> document zoom or user interface zoom I use, the only one usable fonts
> are the ones from the DejaVue font family -- yet, also here the display
> is far away from a clean sharp display as I can find in Pages or MSW. I
> was just wondering whether there is upcoming development on that issue
> (obviously only a Mac one), or if there is simple tricks to make fonts
> display clear, sharp, and reader-friendly. Thanks for comments and
> tipps. Bests, *S*


Good eye Sascha!!!!!  LO appears to have a problem.  But then, so does 
Pages!   LOL

Downloaded and installed the latest version of LO.

After figuring out which font was what between LO and Pages (I don't own 
MS Office for Mac) as the name of a font is displayed differently 
between the two programs, I tried a number of fonts, not just the Latin 
Modern and DejaVu fonts you mentioned.

Every font I tried, serif and san serif has the same problem.  Wherever 
there is a font character with a horizontal surface, there is ghosting 
on the horizontal surfaces of the character.  Also, at different font 
sizes, colors, and zoom levels.

Pages will do it too, at least on my iMac.  Set the font to 48 pt., and 
zoom to 400%.  It's not as noticeable, but it's there.

And LO Calc and Numbers have the same problem with the ghosting.

Since *all* fonts seem to have this problem, logic dictates the problem 
is not the font structure, but the way all four programs are rendering it.

Which brings up the question, could a portion of the issue be hardware 
related, and how the hardware reacts to the commands received from the 
software?  But obviously, Pages and Numbers does a better job of 
rendering the font on the screen.

As a cross check, I installed the latest version of LO on my dual-boot 
Windows system, XP Pro and Vista Ultimate.  ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP 
graphics, Aero Theme capable.  HP 9500 19" CRT.

Basically did the same thing as I did on the Mac, but didn't load your 
fonts.  And only with Writer.  Absolutely no problem with the display. 
However, it is a Windows machine, and another machine with a different 
or lower quality graphics card may have issues.

I'm not at all familiar about how bug reporting is done, maybe there 
will be some reader of this message that can check to see if it's been 
reported.

When I first got this Mac, I also noticed that Pages and Numbers cannot 
zoom to the proper size.  100% is definitely not 100% for a WYSIWYG 
display.  I have iWork 09, I don't know if it's been fixed in a newer 
version.

As soon as I discovered that, I went looking for something else.  First 
Open Office, then NeoOffice, and now Libre Office.



Ken


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