Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject: Here's how to get OOo to render fonts all pretty like OS X
Set SAL_AUTOHINTING_PRIORITY=0 in soffice.bin's environment and be happy! Now OOo will render fonts just like OS X.
Ed, could this be hooked up to a preference in Start OpenOffice.org? Right now I'm just using a simple shell script named soffice.bin which sets this env variable and then exec's the real soffice.bin.
Hmm, in my case the text just looks more blurry -- not an improvement over the previous settings and nowhere near MacOS X quality. I think after applying the freetype matches from http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/docs/openoffice-mac/
the only missing things are: better kerning support and better font management (not necessarily *more* fonts, but the fonts should work as expected (i.e. print, display, adding italics, pdf rendering, sharing docs)
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:31 am Post subject: Re: Here's how to get OOo to render fonts all pretty like OS
Anonymous wrote:
Set SAL_AUTOHINTING_PRIORITY=0 in soffice.bin's environment and be happy! Now OOo will render fonts just like OS X.
Ed, could this be hooked up to a preference in Start OpenOffice.org? Right now I'm just using a simple shell script named soffice.bin which sets this env variable and then exec's the real soffice.bin.
Matt
I won't debate the issue of whether this improves font rendering or not, but I thought I would answer your question about environment variables.
As well as your solution, you have several other options :
a) Modify the AppleScript source code of "Start OpenOffice.org" yourself to add the environment variable (when "soffice.bin" etc are launched).
b) Create a text file called "environment.plist" in a ".MacOSX" directory in your home directory, that contains XML (plist) key/value pairs that correspond to the enviroment variables you want set (for all applications launched by the currently logged in user).
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