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Real font smoothing in OpenOffice
Authored by: PancakeMan on Jul 21, '04 01:07:25PM
I tried this and at "Unpacking library..." I got errors:
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: End of archive volume 1 reached
tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format.
(This is on 10.2.8.)

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Real font smoothing in OpenOffice
Authored by: ms_t_rie on Jul 21, '04 02:31:54PM

I got the same error on 10.3, and after some digging, I discovered that the problem does like with the .gz file. I went through the article, and found the .tar file that was used in it, so I downloaded that one instead.
Unpacking that one and using the contents of that worked fine.

http://www2.entropy.ch/download/libfreetype-2.1.9-davidchesterpatch.tar.gz

change the references to the other .gz file to the above instead and the script should work (I also found I had to join the 3 lines for the last real command in the script, when I just copied and pasted what was there, the command was invalid as displayed)

Once the script was repaired to use the valid archive and fix the actual install command, it ran and Open Office looks SO much better now!



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Real font smoothing in OpenOffice
Authored by: obsidian849 on Jul 21, '04 02:41:30PM

Pancakeman,
I just checked the lib down load site for this tip. It is currently down. That may explain the error. Check to see if its up before trying again.
Rich

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Real font smoothing in OpenOffice
Authored by: robmorton on Jul 21, '04 04:25:03PM

I got the same thing so I went to the website http://www2.entropy.ch/ to verify that it was up. It says it is down for maintenance. I figure I will try it again later, but you do have to remove the directory in /Users/Shared/libfreetype prior to running the script again. This may not be the issue, but could be the issue.



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