On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 20:04 +0000, Write Me wrote: > Good evening and greeting from rainy London, UK > > I am using Linux Mint 13 Maya / 3.2.0-23-generic > > I have just uninstalled LibreOffice 3.6, using Synaptic. All went well. > > I have installed LibreOffice 4.1.3.2 ,manually. All went well. No error > messages or conflicts mentioned in the terminal. > > Specifically these files in the order stated: > 1) LibreOffice_4.1.3.2_Linux_x86_deb > 2) LibreOffice_4.1.3.2_Linux_x86_deb_langpack_en-GB > 3) LibreOffice_4.1.3.2_Linux_x86_deb_helppack_en-GB > > > However I am very dissatisfied with the text in the user interface. > While I think the text font is still Arial or some such sans serif font > it is to squashed up close together. The distance between letters in > the same word is nothing and so the letters touch each other. I have > attached a screen shot. I hope this is OK I went looking for rules > about posting and could not see a mention of attachments. > > The text in the user interface is too hard to read and is very ugly. > > The same problem exists in Writer, Calc, Draw, and Impress. Making the > whole of LibreOffice too hard to use. > > I regret this installation as I will not enjoy using it with the text as > it is. > > Any help appreciated > > Stephen >
Stephen, Look under TOOLS >> OPTIONS >> LIBREOFFIC >> VIEW. There you will see the settings used for the LO UI. "Use System Fonts..." is probably selected. You can change the system fonts in the Cinnamon Settings >> Appearance >> Fonts Jay -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
