font quality problem in pdfs generated in openoffice

Philippe A. futhark77 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 12 00:13:21 UTC 2006


2006/11/9, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com>:
>
> Philippe A. wrote:
> >
> > I have noticed some malformed fonts in pdfs exported from openoffice in
> > FC6. The spacing of consecutive letters is occasionnally too small,
> > causing characters to almost overlap. I see that on printed PDFs too. I
> > didn't have that kind of issue in FC4.
>
> It may be related to:
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198082
> ??
>
> Under certain conditions, freetype 2.2 seems to do a poor job of
> rendering fonts compared to 2.1.  I'm not sure if other bug reports are
> open on this, but I think I've seen KDE users talk about
> enabling/disabling anti-aliasing to make font rendering better under FC6.
>

I do have anti-aliasing turned on. I have the same problem with or without
the freetype bytecode interpreter enabled. Time to email on OO.org list I
guess.
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