Font hinting problems solved - sort of?

[Phil Messenger <phil@interfluix.net>]

Hi,
	You're probably aware that by default the font hinting with antialiased
fonts in OpenOffice leaves a lot to be desired. The font FAQ indicates
that this is because of the Apple patent problems with Freetype. Still,
I've discovered that it's fairly trivial to work aroud this without
actually modifying anything or rebuilding OpenOffice. This obviously
depends on you having a freetype library on your system which does have
autohinting and the bytecode interpreter enabled.

Simply:

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

before executing 'openoffice' results in nicely hinted fonts.

Without:

http://www.btinternet.com/~philmes/oo-freetype/without.png

With:

http://www.btinternet.com/~philmes/oo-freetype/with.png

Phil.




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