In all of the openoffice-ximian components, the menu and dialog fonts are impossible to read. They are so small that I geuss the font point size to be around 1 pt. That's right. ONE. The entire menu bar fits into a span of 32 pixels or so, maybe less. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge openoffice-ximian Actual Results: In all of the openoffice-ximian components, the menu and dialog fonts are impossible to read. They are so small that I geuss the font point size to be around 1 pt. That's right. ONE. The entire menu bar fits into a span of 32 pixels or so, maybe less. Could this possible be related to a problem with the new xfree release? Probably not, but this is definitely VERY strange. To top it off, I waited all day for this thing to build. :( Expected Results: Normal fonts. Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.1-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.1-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/tomcat/conf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups directfb encode esd foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql nas ncurses oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype video_cards_savage x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Probably the font selected as gui font is wrong. You can set the UI font by defining a font replacement for "Andale Sans UI"
Actually openoffice-ximian is getting its font settings from the gnome settings, so no reason to apply the font replacement. Do you use gnome? And what did you set your settings there? Also could you check in the Openoffice-prefs under Accessibility > Use system font for user interface if this is set and if selecting or deselcting this helps anything?
Thanks for the suggestions. However, since the font is completely unreadable, these menus are unnavigable. Additionally (which I probably should've mentioned) since dialog metrics are most commonly based on character metrics, the dialogs are unusable and unreadable as well. Configuration of Ximian OpenOffice from inside the application is thus impossible. Also, I use KDE as my desktop. The only gnome stuff that I have are to satisfy package dependencies. Perhaps this is the source of the problem? Is there perhaps a package "missing" or some configuration "missing" that should've been part of the ebuild for people that don't use Gnome? Hmmm....
I ran into this problem also with OO 1.1.0-r3 ... I did some digging and it seems to have something to do with Oopen Office using TrueType fonts for the UI. The recommended solution was to remove the TrueType fonts from my X font server. However, that was undesireable as I need them, not to mention it seemed to destablize KDE. Anyway, I removed the following entries from /etc/X11/fs/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF And restarted "xfs". Then, OO's UI was fine. Then, to fix the UI font, go to "Tools --> Options". Under "openoffice.org", go to the Accessibility sub-menu and select the "Use system font for user interface" checkbox. Et voila, it works just fine. Finally, re-add the removed lines from your XFS config and restart XFS again. And then, for good measure, restart X. Worked for me.
Hey, this works just great in the latest ebuild: openoffice-ximiam-1.1.50. So I'm happy to say that I'm no longer having this problem. This should be marked FIXED.
