LibreOffice looks terrible compared to the rest of my OS and other text applications, such as MS Word. It looks like it has no anti-aliasing, how can I activate it?
Here's a screenshot of what it looks like:
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 if that helps.
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This does have to do with the anti-aliasing in Windows. It expects you to have it on in the OS, so they don't bother re-creating anti-aliasing in the Office Suite. If you disabled the anti-aliasing in Windows, it would look the same.
If wine's own font smoothing does not work, then I don't think it will. Here's a test to make sure its just the display that's wrong. Print something...does it look okay?
Maybe post a complaint on WineHQ under the Microsoft Office information; they may be able to help you more (and possibly fix the problem in their next update).
I have seen this problem too (on my own computer, I have Office installed as well). I learned to ignore it. Also try zooming in on the text to make it look a little better. Setting the view to page-width may help a lot.
I fixed the font rendering on my system after reading this topic. Removing/renaming the home (profile) directory and starting over didn't make any difference.
You need to open the xfce4-settings editor and set the /Xft/Lcdfilter string in the xsettings channel from lcdnone to lcdlight. Other options to try are lcddefault and lcdlegacy as seen here under Rendering subtitle. Here is the CLI way:
xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Xft/Lcdfilter -s lcdlight
or if the old value doesn't exist:
xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Xft/Lcdfilter -n -t string -s lcdlight
After changing that option you need to restart the applications to see the differences. Here are my before and after screenshots (after is the like it was on 11.10). Btw, the screenshots are resized so you should right click on them and click View image or Open image in new tab to really see the differences.
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If the reason for bad looking fonts is disabled anti-aliasing, then there are few things you could try:
Just give it a try!
If you are using ttf fonts instead and nothing helps see this answer for further help.