Bug#189088: Too difficult to have antialiasing with the freetype2 autohinter.

[Maurizio Colucci <seguso.forever@tin.it>]

Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.0.3-1
Severity: normal

Hi Chris,

In the freetype-devel mailing list there is an almost general
consensus that antialiasing is better with the autohinting module,
supplied by freetype2 (as opposed to the bytecode interpter).

In order to enable the autohinter in openoffice, I had to recompile
freetype2 with no bytecode support, then

    export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6

I believe this is too difficult for the ordinary user who wants a
decent antialiased layout.

I don't know how to solve this, since openoffice seems to ignore

1. any Xft settings put in .Xresources
2. /etc/fonts/local.conf

I just wanted to let you know, in case you can think of something. :-)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux par 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii  openoffice.org-bin            1.0.3-1    OpenOffice.org office suite 
binary
ii  openoffice.org-debian-files   1.0.3-1+1  Debian specific parts of 
OpenOffic
ii  openoffice.org-l10n-en        1.0.3-1    English (US) language package for 

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