Re: Bug#214588: marked as done (openoffice.org-bin: cannot do italic text)

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>]

Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> James Miller wrote:
>
> > I happened across this bug you filed on a google search.  I thought I 
> > should let you know that, if I understand your submission correclty, 
> > it's not a OpenOffice problem but one of the XFree86 font backend.  Xtt 
> > does support italic/bold better but freetype does not.  Many CJK folks 
> > will rely on XTT but some noticable bugs include the inability to 
> > display some fonts.. including OpenOffice when openned with LANGUAGE=ja! 
> >
> > You are probably using freetype as the font backend which is the source 
> > of the italic display probelm, however..

Hi,

This explains why the bug persists on my computer.  I think I use 
freetype, because I have
Load  "freetype"
in my XF86Config-4.

Eugen