Bad menu fonts in Debian's OpenOffice

:cry: Hi to all! I've got a problem with OpenOffice's menu fonts.
So, in Knoppix, OpenOffice's menu fonts looks fine (identical to Windows version of the program) but in Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, with the same version of OpenOffice, menu fonts appears with wrong render. I have tried to change Andale Sans UI but fonts looks already wrong. Can you help me?

What's wrong with the fonts?

So, the fonts appear bigger than knoppix's fonts and bad scaled, without anti-alias (with anti-alias enabled in the options)

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Originally Posted by Lexinton

So, the fonts appear bigger than knoppix's fonts and bad scaled, without anti-alias (with anti-alias enabled in the options)

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Knoppix uses a different default for the font size than Debian. Check in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers and change the -dpi 100 lines to -dpi 75. Then in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Change the order of the font paths so that the 75dpi line is above the the 100dpi one i.e:

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        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/type1"

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Also the type1 line in the file should be at the bottom of the paths. You may also want to create an ~/.Xresources with this line Xft.autohint: 1 this will enable the auto-hinting of the anit-aliased fonts when you login to your user. You will have to log out and re-start the X-Server for the changes to take effect and you should see a difference in your fonts.

I think I know what the original poster is talking about although I'm not sure if this is the forum to talk about it. I just faced the same problem just now.

I'm using Knoppix 3.2 and just upgraded openoffice.org since I wanted the english version installed and not the German one.

Apparently it installed Version OpenOffice 1.1.0-3 and I'm facing a problem with the fonts on the Menu and document. Everything is gone for a toss. It's a little hard to describe how bad it looks.

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dpkg -l openoffice* | grep ii
ii openoffice.org 1.1.0-3 high-quality office productivity suite
ii openoffice.org 1.1.0-3 OpenOffice.org office suite binary files
ii openoffice.org 1.1.0-3+2 Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org
ii openoffice.org 1.1.0-3 English US language package for openoffice.o
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I looked at my X Config files as well and they appear to be as you have suggested.

Any other ideas / tips on where to look to tweak my configuration settings?

Regards

Rishi