Fonts displaying poorly in LibreOffice 3.4.5 on Windows XP

[doremi]

Hi,

On my laptop, some fonts like the “DejaVu” family displays very poorly in LibreOffice 3.4.5 (OS = Windows XP Pro).

They are like “pixelized” with the “pixel” size ~ 0.5 mm.
Of course the true pixels are much smaller.

I checked that the DejaVu fonts are present in C:\Windows\Fonts

On another laptop the same fonts display correctly and I cannot remember if I had done something special for this. What I can see is that the same fonts display very well in another software (Scribus).

What should I do so that all fonts display well in LibreOffice and not only the half ?

Thanks.

N.B. With an administrator account, I tried to remove the problematic fonts in C:\Windows\Fonts and to replace them by Copy-Paste with those from the other computer. But when I paste the TTF fonts, the OS informs that the fonts are already installed and should be desinstalled first.

[janus]

Try enabling or disabling ClearType.

[doremi]

Thank you very much. It solved the problem. I had completely forgotten it.

For other interested: to activate ClearType, select Start → Settings/Parameters → Control panel → Display → Appearance (4th tab) → Effects… (button) → Check the 2nd checkbox and select “ClearType” in the droplist

The DejaVu fonts still do not display perfectly, but much better however.
Then, it’s also a matter of screen quality and the fonts display better on my other laptop which has an SXGA screen.

As the “DejaVu Sans Light” is very thin, I would recommand to select a relatively bold version if using afterwards Microsoft’s “ClearType Tuner”, which is an online tool to optimize the rendering by ClearType on your LCD screen.

[doremi]

Thank you very much. I had forgotten it and it really improved things a lot.

DejaVu fonts still display poorly, but much better however.

It’s also a matter of screen resolution and quality.
Fonts display much better on my other LCD screen which is SXGA and has higher resolution.