[TriLUG] OpenOffice

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 12:26, Daniel Monjar wrote:
> Anyone using OpenOffice?  I'm trying it out under RH 7.3.  The default 
> fonts for the menues, and for the install appand the dialog boxes is 
> strange.  All of text labels look to be double spaced.  For instance, 'File 
> Open' looks more like 'F  i  l  e    O  p  e  n'.
> 
> It is a little disconcerting... any ideas?


Yes, I had this problem and Google helped me find the fix:

  http://acd.ucar.edu/~fredrick/linux/openoffice.html
  http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html
   ==> see the section on "User interface font looks garbled"


hth,
Ed

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