Michael Carr wrote:
I doubt there'd be much demand: antialiasing is already working perfectly in OO 1.0.1 under SuSE 8.0.
But did you read my post? I am not interested in antialiasing, I am interested in hinting. In other words, turn off your antialiasing, and see how good it looks. On LCD monitors, antialiasing is not so desirable. On an LCD it is better to have the fonts not antialiased. Then, it is very helpful to have the hinting working properly or the fonts look choppy, or otherwise crummy. Now, I have learned that all one needs to do it run OpenOffice like this: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 ooffice1.0/soffice& and this will override the internally included freetype lib inside OO that *doesn't* have the hinting done but *does* antialias, do you realize the difference? So, perhaps Suse 8.0 had put a wrapper around OO that uses this library preload. Or perhaps they don't, and you think your fonts are the best they can get because you are using antialiasing, but if you turned off antialiasing and looked at them on an LCD you'd see that they look marginal. Good day! _____________________ Christopher R. Carlen crobc@earthlink.net Suse 7.3 Linux 2.4.10