I found these patches in Fedora-CVS, which are dealing with two upstream-issues which are related to this bug (I've chosen Fedora ones, because the patches attached to the issues may be out of date):
Patch to honor cairo-font-settings: (issue 59127 upstream) http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-2.0.2.ooo59127.vcl.honourcairofont.patch?rev=1.1&view=auto Patch to honor fontconfig-hinting (issue 64508 upstream) http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-2.0.2.ooo64508.vcl.honourfontconfighinting.patch?rev=1.13&view=auto -- [Edgy] font hinting does not work with libfreetype6 v. 2.2.1 https://launchpad.net/bugs/54776 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs