To add to what Jaile said, you can get Best Shapes to operate in Openoffice while having subpixel smoothing in the rest of your apps. Before starting Openoffice, change from Subpixel Smoothing to Best shapes under Appearance Preferences>Fonts. Once Openoffice is loaded, switch back to Subpixel Smoothing. The rest of your apps will have subpixel smoothing, but Openoffce will keep the nicer looking fonts from Best Shapes, even in new openoffice windows.
Thus one could develop a very easy temporary fix for this by simple having openoffice switch to best shapes on load, and switch back after load is complete. I can't imagine that would be too hard to add, and would fix a serious problem I'd suggest this is a more serious than the bug importance rating presently indicates. I'd imagine most people using Ubuntu use a word processor on a fairly regular basis, and most people use LCD monitors, making the subpixel smoothing option the best choice in many cases. Thus since the majority of Ubuntu users are affected by a bug that seriously affects the usability of a primary application (staring at the ugliest font rendering I've ever seen for hours on end DOES affect usability considerably), I'd suggest raising this to High at the least. Also, the title of the bug should be changed, as Openoffice is now at 2.3 and Ubuntu is at 7.10 or 8.04 depending. People should be aware this is an active bug, but the title does not indicate it. -- openoffice 2.2 has a serious problem with font rendering in Ubuntu 7.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/92693 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
