[Bug 256058] Re: Fonts not rendered correctly in OOo - Times New Roman looks bold above 13pt

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]

I agree with Arnaud, this is a detail in the font itself that can be
seen in Windows as well, in Ubuntu does not happen by default anymore
since it uses "slight" hinting.

** No longer affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: freetype (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Medium => Low

** Changed in: freetype (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Opinion

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Title:
  Fonts not rendered correctly in OOo - Times New Roman looks bold above
  13pt

Status in FreeType: High Quality Font Rendering:
  New
Status in “freetype” package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: openoffice.org

  I just installed Hardy and the fonts in documents look terrible in
  OpenOffice. Specifically I'm using Times New Roman. I have
  msttcorefonts installed and all other apps are fine.  The letters look
  unevenly spaced and different font sizes look like completely
  different fonts.

  I have attached screenshots from Gutsy and Hardy to show the
  difference. Notice how in Gutsy everything was uniform, and all the
  letters can be seen clearly. In Hardy, the letters run together and
  the 11 point font in the quotation looks much different than the 12
  point font used in the rest of the text. The text on Hardy looks cheap
  and amateur.

  I installed upstream version of OpenOffice for comparison and these
  problems are not evident.  So the problem seems to be the result of an
  Ubuntu patch to OpenOffice. Why change this? Font rendering in
  OpenOffice was perfectly fine in Gutsy. This is a show stopper for me
  because I use this computer for work, and these fonts make it
  difficult to read.

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