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libreoffice package

Fonts look bad after scaling display in Kubuntu Disco

Bug #1824743 reported by Nathan Blair
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libreoffice (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Hi,

I'm trying out the kubuntu Disco beta. I have 4k displays, so I went into the KDE System Settings and changed my screen scaling value to 1.4. After doing this, all of the fonts in all of the LibreOffice applications looked really bad, to the point of being nearly unreadable.

I eventually removed libreoffice-kde5 and libreoffice-qt5 and confirmed that the fonts were fixed, but that has obvious negative consequences. Installing libreoffice-gtk3 helped, and the fonts still look ok.

This doesn't appear to happen in Kubuntu 18.10.

Not sure what else to do to help diagnose this but I'm glad to have a look.

Nate

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Nathan Blair (nathan-blair) wrote :
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Nathan Blair (nathan-blair) wrote :

Also, the fonts do look ok at 1.0 scaling, but I can't really read them that small. They appear to be similarly broken on any factor above 1.0.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Richard Baka (bakarichard91) wrote :

Hi the same problem here. After I've installed the gtk3 package and removed both libreoffice-qt5 and libreoffice-kde5 the fonts seem to be OK but all of the icon packages are ugly, pixelated (even the *SVG* icons)

This is one of the most important linux desktop software component but the UI looks much better and it is more useable on Windows 10. Why?

In 2019 nobody uses lowDPI displays. HiDPI must be supported by all main applications.

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dan1 (dan1) wrote :

Hi, same problem here. Nathan, thank you for posting the workaround!

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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

Hi Nathan, thanks for the bug report. This is currently a known issue with non-integer scaling factors in KDE [1]. There's unfortunately no big fix for everyone yet, just small fixes that work for some and not for others. Keep up-to-date with KDE updates and it's likely the issue will eventually go away (as it seems to have for some people [2]).

If you don't mind, it may a good idea to log this particular bug upstream with KDE [3]. Once reported, please share the link here on this bug. Thank you!

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI#KDE (There's a suggested workaround here too)
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/bpqbr9/noninteger_scaling_factors_not_buggy_anymore/?ref=readnext
[3] https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

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