Re: Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

2007-01-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 09:26 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > I think there is an issue with OOo and freetype 2.2.x in > testing/unstable. Indeed, I looked for freetype related bugs in the bug list for openoffice and found these: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=385798 http://bugs.debi

Re: Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

2007-01-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-01-29 12:20:27 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > I see this too, in a GNOME environment. My fonts are not larger than the > default ones, but different and with worse anti-aliasing. Same problem here. But under Mac OS X (still under XWindow), the OOo fonts are much *smaller*! -- Vincent Lef

Re: Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

2007-01-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:38:26 +0100 Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-01-30 09:10:13 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > I think OOo gets its idea of screen resolution from the X resource > > database, whereas many other applications use the X server's > > resolution. What is the outp

Re: Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

2007-01-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-01-30 09:10:13 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > I think OOo gets its idea of screen resolution from the X resource > database, whereas many other applications use the X server's resolution. > What is the output of the following commands? > > xrdb -q | grep dpi > xdpyinfo | grep resolut

Re: Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

2007-01-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:20:27 +0100 Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 10:06 +0100, Dan H. wrote: > > After a sarge->etch (and, consequently, oo-1.2 -> oo2.0) upgrade I > > found that all fonts in menus and dialog boxes are huge (see > [...] > > As you can see in the

Re: Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

2007-01-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:06:09 +0100 "Dan H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've asked this question before in an OO forum, but didn't get any > useful result. > > After a sarge->etch (and, consequently, oo-1.2 -> oo2.0) upgrade I > found that all fonts in menus and dialog boxes are huge

Re: Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

2007-01-30 Thread Dan H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Well, there's that 'Scaling' entry in the upper left corner. > Set it to a value below 100%. There is, but as I have written before, it scales everything. Not only the GUI but also the icons and the document content. And it c

Re: Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

2007-01-30 Thread Dan H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John W. Foster wrote: > you might try removing the /home/user/.openoffice file and letting oo reset > its defaults from the .2 version. Did that, didn't work. Interestingly, the OO that comes with Knoppix looks just fine. I really wish I knew wher

Re: Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

2007-01-29 Thread John W. Foster
On Monday 29 January 2007 03:06 am, Dan H. wrote: > Hello, > > I've asked this question before in an OO forum, but didn't get any > useful result. > > After a sarge->etch (and, consequently, oo-1.2 -> oo2.0) upgrade I found > that all fonts in menus and dialog boxes are huge (see > > http://www.nan

Re: Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

2007-01-29 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Dan H. wrote: > After a sarge->etch (and, consequently, oo-1.2 -> oo2.0) upgrade > I found that all fonts in menus and dialog boxes are huge (see > > http://www.nanoscience.de/group_r/members/dhaude/stuff/OO_hugefonts.png > > for a 1:1 screenshot. Well, there's that 'Scaling' entry in the upper

Re: Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

2007-01-29 Thread Dan H.
Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Apparently, you and I are not alone, a quick check in the bug tracker > show quite a few similar bugs, 340029, 351781, 357356, 376878, 400419... > and a few others I'm sure. Ah, I see. Well, the font in my screenshot is still a ton larger than in what those people have se

Re: Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

2007-01-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 10:06 +0100, Dan H. wrote: > After a sarge->etch (and, consequently, oo-1.2 -> oo2.0) upgrade I found > that all fonts in menus and dialog boxes are huge (see [...] > As you can see in the dialog box in that screenshot, there is a "Use > system font for user interface" checkbo