OpenOffice Menu Font size - X application Menu Font Size

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You are not alone on the GIANT font problem.
I, too, had this situation.  I never was able to fix it.
I did see the sugested fix and it seemed way off.
Never did try it.

Olaf Olson wrote:

> I guess I am the only one to ever experience this problem, as I have 
> not seen it come to these lists and was told to go to the OO website 
> to research the problem when I did.
>
> I have a G3 B&W 350Mhz, 648Mb RAM, RAGE video, and 20GB hard drive. 
> None of that really matters. The issue that I saw was that when I 
> started Open Office, the menu fonts were so HUGE, that I couldn't see 
> anything on the page. I couldn't type anything in, I couldn't select 
> any menu items. I couldn't even EXIT, except for clicking the X to 
> kill the window.
>
> I figured it must be an installation problem, so I downloaded 1.1.2 
> and started the install (No yum update available). I couldn't run the 
> installer because? I couldn't see any menus on the screen, or even 
> pick the accept button on the license agreement.
>
> So... I searched through OpenOffice.org. I went to the mail lists and 
> found that there might have been an answer, back in October of 2003, 
> which actually referred to an incident in April, which seemed to maybe 
> relate to RedHat version 9 and probably 8, too. More investigation 
> revealed that setting the screen resolution in X86Config was the thing 
> that was hosing OpenOffice.
>
> What a ridiculous suggestion! Obviously, these people were just trying 
> to throw me off. If the video configuration was wrong, NOTHING would 
> work. Still, when someone tells you the solution, you have to try it. 
> According to the story I dug up during an hour of googling, the 
> calculated resolution of the screen that is obtained when you enter 
> the size of the screen and make it do the math is wrong, IF you use 
> inches. Switch to mm, and it works. My screen is 16 x 12 inches. 
> According to the calculations, I have a 2032 DPI screen. Changing to 
> 406 x 304 yields 80 DPI.
>
> It's fixed.
>
> Anybody else ever see that? Anybody else going to try the solution?
>
> Now the stupid question. When YUM didn't install the application, how 
> do you get it started?
>
> Olaf
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