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Re: fonts in openoffice.org



On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:25:18PM +1200, maillist@bestworldweb.homelinux.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running unstable and  apt-getted openoffice.org a couple of days
> ago. The fonts in openoffice are awful - both the actual application and
> fonts used when writing documents. My gnome desktop has really nice
> anti-aliased fonts. How can I give openoffice nice fonts.
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Paul
> 

If you install ttf-bitstream-vera, the newest OpenOffice will use them 
for the application and documents.

But I downloaded Arial, Times New Roman, Courier, and Verdana and 
registered them by running oopadmin as root, because docs using this 
fonts are less likely to be butchered by other apps.




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