Bold style too heavy after upgrade from 3.6 to 4.1.2.3

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#1

Hi,

Today I upgraded from LibreOffice 3.6 to 4.1.2.3 (build ID 40b2d7fde7e8d2d7bc5a449dc65df4d08a7dd38), on OS X 10.6.8.

In the new version, bolded text is much much heavier than it was in version 3.6, and than what it should be (according to the font).

A screenshot is at http://grab.by/qTqM - here you can see how in the upper example (LO 3.6) it looks fine and like it should and always has (both in LO and other applications), and in the bottom example you can see how it looks now in LO 4.1 (not the way it should). The font in both examples is Albany AMT, 10pt.

I can switch back and forth between the two versions and the symptom persists, the text is heavier in 4.1 than in 3.6.
I have tried to move ~/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice and ~/Library/Preferences/org.libreoffice.script.LSSharedFileList.plist out of the way, but it doesn't change anything in the symptoms.

Been Googling quite a lot to find info about this, but without any relevant luck. Does anyone have an idea as to why this is happening, and what to do about it?

Thanks!

Regards, Leo

#2

Hi Leo,

please take a look for the option in:

Menu/Tools/Option/LibreOffice/View - Graphics options - Use Anti-Alising.

I do not see visible differences with 4.x but I seem to remember there was
significant differences in some 3.x

#3

Hi,

That option/setting is turned on. I'm not seeing any change regarding the symptoms when I turn it off and on.

I tried another thing now, namely to see if there was possibly an Albany AMT in the 4.1 package. I couldn't find one though (in /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/share/fonts/truetype), but nonetheless I moved that folder out of the way and copied the truetype folder from 3.6 as a substitute. This didn't change anything though, the bold still looks the same, too bold.

Regards, Leo

6 okt 2013 kl. 01.01 skrev mariosv:

#4

Hi,

Just a final note; To see if it made any difference I opened this in OpenOffice 4.0.1, and the "too bold" problem is not visible there.

Given that it's just LibreOffice 4.1 I have this problem in, and not LibreOffice 3 nor OpenOffice 4.0, and I have checked settings as well as removed any preferences for the application, I'll just have to let this rest for now.

If anyone is interested in investigating this further, in case it is a bug in LibreOffice, just shoot me an e-mail and I'll do whatever testing is needed.

Regards, Leo

6 okt 2013 kl. 01.23 skrev Leo R. Lundgren:

Hi,

That option/setting is turned on. I'm not seeing any change regarding the symptoms when I turn it off and on.

I tried another thing now, namely to see if there was possibly an Albany AMT in the 4.1 package. I couldn't find one though (in /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/share/fonts/truetype), but nonetheless I moved that folder out of the way and copied the truetype folder from 3.6 as a substitute. This didn't change anything though, the bold still looks the same, too bold.

Regards, Leo

6 okt 2013 kl. 01.01 skrev mariosv:

Hi Leo,

please take a look for the option in:

Menu/Tools/Option/LibreOffice/View - Graphics options - Use Anti-Alising.

I do not see visible differences with 4.x but I seem to remember there was
significant differences in some 3.x

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#5

YES
I just installed 4.1.2.3 to my Ubuntu desktop and see what you mean by
how "dark" the "bolded" text looks.

It was not dark with 4.0.5.

#6

Hi,

That's great, I mean that I'm not the only one having the problem. And also that we might have some kind of hint as to which version it started happening with, i.e. something after 4.0.5 then.

Thanks for chiming in!

Regards, Leo

10 okt 2013 kl. 01.38 skrev Kracked_P_P---webmaster:

YES
I just installed 4.1.2.3 to my Ubuntu desktop and see what you mean by
how "dark" the "bolded" text looks.

It was not dark with 4.0.5.

Hi,

Just a final note; To see if it made any difference I opened this in OpenOffice 4.0.1, and the "too bold" problem is not visible there.

Given that it's just LibreOffice 4.1 I have this problem in, and not LibreOffice 3 nor OpenOffice 4.0, and I have checked settings as well as removed any preferences for the application, I'll just have to let this rest for now.

If anyone is interested in investigating this further, in case it is a bug in LibreOffice, just shoot me an e-mail and I'll do whatever testing is needed.

Regards, Leo

6 okt 2013 kl. 01.23 skrev Leo R. Lundgren:

Hi,

That option/setting is turned on. I'm not seeing any change regarding the symptoms when I turn it off and on.

I tried another thing now, namely to see if there was possibly an Albany AMT in the 4.1 package. I couldn't find one though (in /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/share/fonts/truetype), but nonetheless I moved that folder out of the way and copied the truetype folder from 3.6 as a substitute. This didn't change anything though, the bold still looks the same, too bold.

Regards, Leo

6 okt 2013 kl. 01.01 skrev mariosv:

Hi Leo,

please take a look for the option in:

Menu/Tools/Option/LibreOffice/View - Graphics options - Use Anti-Alising.

I do not see visible differences with 4.x but I seem to remember there was
significant differences in some 3.x

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#7

Actually I just went back to 4.0.5 due to a problem with the font
selection scroll-down in Calc.

I have over 400 fonts in my ".font" folder and every time I tried to
scroll down to change the font of a cell, it suddenly jumped back to the
top of the list.

So, there is more than one font issue for 4.1.2 that needs to be worked out.

#8

That font-changing problem sounds similar to a problem I created a bug report on. I was using 4.0.4.2 at the time, and moving to 4.0.5 (the version I'm currently using) fixed it. But maybe it resurfaced in 4.1?

Kracked, check out bug report 67223 and see what you think.
    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67223

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