If you use OpenOffice, then you will have noticed that fonts look bad -- not nearly as nice as they do in OS X apps. The following hint will solve that. It assumes that you have installed OpenOffice 1.1.2. Credits go to Marc Liyanage for the how-to, as well as the compiled freetype library.
Read the rest of the hint for the solution...
#!/bin/sh
set -e
echo Creating folder libfreetype in /Users/Shared
cd /Users/Shared
mkdir libfreetype
cd libfreetype
echo Downloading replacement library...
curl -O 'http://www2.entropy.ch/download/libfreetype-6.3.3-entropy.tar.gz'
echo Unpacking library...
tar xzf libfreetype-6.3.3-entropy.tar.gz
rm libfreetype-6.3.3-entropy.tar.gz
chmod a+rX .
echo Updating OpenOffice
install_name_tool -change /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
/Users/Shared/libfreetype/libfreetype.6.dylib
/Applications/OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libvcl645mxp.dylib
echo Done.
% sudo sh ~/OOfreetype.sh
If you see no error messages, and the message Done. at the end, then all worked fine.
Uninstall: If you want to undo the change, open a Terminal window and type:
% sudo install_name_tool -change /Users/Shared/libfreetype/libfreetype.6.dylib \
/usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib \
/Applications/OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libvcl645mxp.dylib
You can type this on one single line, but then you'll have to omit the backslashes.
Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040715064137204