[Lilux-help] OpenOffice

[Patrick Kaell]

Hello,

Now, I haven't found any quick way to turn off Anti Aliasing in 
OpenOffice. But let's face it: Why should someone want to to this? The 
pixelized M$ Word fonts do not provide real WYSIWYG (What You See Is 
What You Get), because it has to respect pixel borders. Word uses 
special screen fonts with are different from the paper fonts. OpenOffice 
uses the same fonts on paper as on screen. When you take the paper fonts 
you have to scale them down to the screen resolution. The scaled down 
font then needs half or quarter pixels to be displayed correctly. But as 
we all now, half pixels do not exist. So the only way to display this is 
to use Anti Aliasing. You can display half pixels by taking a full pixel 
and using a grey value. Only the full pixels are displayed black in Anti 
Aliasing.

M$ has modified all screen fonts so that they use exact pixel values. 
But obviously this it far from being WYSIWYG.

Greetings, Patrick Kaell