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Fix the OpenOffice menu fonts Apps
I just installed OpenOffice 1.1.2 under OS X Panther, and the fonts, out of the box, looked like bit-blasted heck. But a few minutes of poking around the docs and experimenting yielded the following cure:
  1. Open up any new OpenOffice document (text is probably easiest).
  2. Under the "Tools" menu, select "Options."
  3. Under the heading "OpenOffice.org," select "Fonts"
  4. Check the "Apply Replacement Table" checkbox
  5. Underneath the checkbox line, in the "Font" combobox, type "Andale Sans UI" (it wasn't in my popup menu, I had to type it in by hand)
  6. In the "Replace With" combobox, type or select "Interface User"
  7. Click the green check mark to add that to your list of substitutions, and make sure the "Always" and "Screen" checkboxes are checked in the listbox, and then click OK.
Voila, not a perfect font perhaps, but a big improvement.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one...]
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Fix the OpenOffice menu fonts
Authored by: calepeeples on Jun 29, '04 10:11:21AM
Alternately you can set your screen preferences in X11 to use millions of colors. I think it's: X11>Preferences>Output>Screen (or something). This worked like a charm for me.

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Fix the OpenOffice menu fonts
Authored by: the_webmaestro on Jun 29, '04 11:27:08AM

Just did it. The menu hierarchy is:

Preferences > Output (tab)

Then change 'Colors:' from 'From Display' to 'Millions', which apparently takes effect when X11 relaunches (haven't relaaunched yet).

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Fix the OpenOffice menu fonts
Authored by: jmao on Jun 29, '04 03:26:12PM

THANK YOU! I hate to shout,...but THANK YOU! I just received an order of 100 iBooks for my school and was trying to figure out how I was going to buy 100 more copies of Office because the fonts looked so horrible in OpenOffice,...you just saved me $5000!!



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Fix the OpenOffice menu fonts
Authored by: keltech on Jul 01, '04 08:43:44AM

I'm still dl the package so I have not checked this out but the read me on the OOo site has an entry regarding fonts having to be converted and added to the OpenOffice environment. The installer apparently does this but is not 100% succesful. You may want to reread that info and get the fondu utility they reference to assist in conversion.



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