On Mon, 28 May 2007, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> Here's a little one hour hair puller (much less for those in the
> know, I'm sure).
>
> While testing OpenOffice after upgrading to SL5, I saw that the
> letter "r" in the menus was rendered incorrectly, looking closer
> to a flaky "n", as if the first column of pixels was being displayed
> last.  Only on OpenOffice, not on other applications, menu bars, etc.
> At first I thought it was an OO bug, and spent a long time frobbing
> on that.  I won't bore you with more details.
>
> It turned out to be a bad interaction between OO and the "Sans 9" font
> used as the application font.  I changed the application font to
> "Sans 10" in System > Preference > Font, and it is larger but clean.

Thanks for sharing info. But it's not doing that on my SL5 desktop. Fonts 
in the menu are rendered perfectly at size 8,9,10...

   Stephan

> Keith
>
> P.S.
> And larger in a bunch of other things, so a little less desktop space.
>
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