font quality problem in pdfs generated in openoffice

[Gordon Messmer]

Philippe A. wrote:
> 
> I have noticed some malformed fonts in pdfs exported from openoffice in 
> FC6. The spacing of consecutive letters is occasionnally too small, 
> causing characters to almost overlap. I see that on printed PDFs too. I 
> didn't have that kind of issue in FC4.

It may be related to:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198082
??

Under certain conditions, freetype 2.2 seems to do a poor job of 
rendering fonts compared to 2.1.  I'm not sure if other bug reports are 
open on this, but I think I've seen KDE users talk about 
enabling/disabling anti-aliasing to make font rendering better under FC6.