Fix the OpenOffice menu fonts
Jun 29, '04 09:08:00AM
Contributed by: manutter51
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:
- Open up any new OpenOffice document (text is probably easiest).
- Under the "Tools" menu, select "Options."
- Under the heading "OpenOffice.org," select "Fonts"
- Check the "Apply Replacement Table" checkbox
- 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)
- In the "Replace With" combobox, type or select "Interface User"
- 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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