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I upgraded to the latest openoffice- and xfree-packages and after this the menus, tooltips or dialogues were all unreadable. But when I run openoffice as root, everything is just OK.
I found also a workaround: Go to Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org -> View and set Scale to 95%. But a Scale >= 96% brings on the same problems described before (strange...). And the ruler and status bar are still too small.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.22-02
Locale: LANG=de_CH, LC_CTYPE=de_CH
Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii debianutils 2.6.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dictionaries-common 0.16.0 Common utilities for spelling dict
ii openoffice.org-bin 1.1.0+1.1.1rc3-1 OpenOffice.org office suite binary
ii openoffice.org-debian 1.1.0+1.1.1rc3-1+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffic
ii openoffice.org-l10n-e 1.1.0+1.1.1rc3-1 English (US) language package for
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On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 20:01, marcel wrote:
> I upgraded to the latest openoffice- and xfree-packages and after this
> the menus, tooltips or dialogues were all unreadable. But when I run
> openoffice as root, everything is just OK.
>
> I found also a workaround: Go to Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org ->
> View and set Scale to 95%. But a Scale >= 96% brings on the same
> problems described before (strange...). And the ruler and status bar
> are still too small.
This is documented in /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz,
closing.
Why are the menu fonts smaller than in older versions?
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This is caused by a change in the way OOo inteprets your X server DPI setting.
This setting, when correctly configured, means that software can display text
at its true size on the display.
The official OOo version assumes that anyone who has their X server configured
with a DPI of less than 96 has not actually configured it at all, and sets it
back to 96. Unfortunately, this has the side effect that displays with a lower
DPI setting, such as some LCD laptop displays, cannot display the page at its
true size.
So you can fix this by correctly setting the DPI for your X server. Gnome users
will find that it is set to 96 DPI by default; others may need to edit their X
server configuration.
The best way to get the correct DPI setting is to add a 'DisplaySize' entry to the
Monitor section. From the XF86Config-4 man page:
DisplaySize width height
This optional entry gives the width and height, in millimetres, of the
picture area of the monitor. If given this is used to calculate the
horizontal and vertical pitch (DPI) of the screen.
If you set this value correctly, X will calculate and use the correct DPI
setting, even if you use several different display resolutions.
>From Nikita V. Youshchenko <yoush at cs.msu.su>:
- Many display manager configurations pass the option "-dpi 100" to the X
server by default, overriding any autodetected DPI. This has to be removed
for DisplaySize to work. The file that you need to edit varies depending on
the way your X server is started:
xdm: /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
kdm: /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers
gdm: /etc/gdm/gdm.conf
startx: /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
- Gnome's gconf overrides the autodetected DPI, by setting Xft.dpi to a value
entered in configuration dialog, 96 by default. I don't know what is
the clean fix for this. Perhaps it should be fixed on the Gnome side.
>From Juergen Kreileder <jk at blackdown.de>:>
- Note that with most recent graphics cards and monitors XFree86 is able to
get the monitor size (and thus the correct dpi value) through ddc.
(**) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes for display device DFP-0:
(**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "1600x1200": 189.0 MHz, 87.5 kHz, 70.0 Hz
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1600 x 1200
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display dimensions: (410, 310) mm
(--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (99, 98)
(That's with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers but other XFree86 drivers have
that support too.)
If you use KDE or Gnome, OOo will use the same font face and size as your
desktop environment. If you use another window manager, you can either let OOo
pick a default font itself, or change the font to be used (see next section),
or edit /etc/openoffice/openoffice.org and set OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP to KDE or
Gnome, to use KDE or Gnome settings respectively.
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