I also experience problems with openoffice kerning. As I posted in http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=92159, kerning does not work for certain fonts: I copied calibri.ttf and Lucida Grande.ttf into my /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory, and for them kerning does not work.
It seems that this is a long standing issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107324 ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New ** Bug watch added: OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker #107324 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107324 -- Kerning is really bad in OO.org! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280019 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs