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. > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [log in to unmask] Voice (503)-520-1993 > KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" > Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs > -- Stephan Wiesand DESY - DV - Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany