Could you look at: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/54776
and try playing with ~/.fonts.conf and tell me if it improves thing for you. I believe that your screenshot looks like what I had initially. And I believe there is no hinting done there at all. After adding a ~/.fonts.conf file, fonts look better (so maybe autohinting got enabled?). Though I admit it still doesn't look as nice as bytecode interpreter. -- OpenOffice doesn't use fontconfig settings https://launchpad.net/bugs/24004 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs