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John
Asked: 2020-05-05 00:58:44 +0800 CST

Easy fix for LibreOffice Impress font problems on Lubutu 20.04?

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I'm hesitant to ask this problem here because it might be considered cross-posting. However, I need to decide whether to downgrade from Lubuntu 20.04 to 18.04.

There is a bug with LibreOffice Impress where slides will have text squished together to the point of being unreadable.

Slide with squished text

The slides are fine on Ubuntu 18.04 and also on Lubuntu 18.04. However, after upgrading a lightweight laptop from Lubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 now I have this problem. The only purpose of this laptop is for presentations so it's a pretty big deal.

The bug was posted on LibreOffice's Bugzilla two weeks ago and there has been no forward movement on it. So, I realize that will take time.

My question is, is there anyone who has seen this or has some idea on how it can be fixed, perhaps some workaround so I don't need to install Lubuntu 18.04 again?

fonts lubuntu libreoffice 20.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The user @sudodus helped out the OP in chat, so thank you @sudodus

    I have seen numerous bugs reported on launchpad since 20.04's launch which are being fixed by LibreOffice upstream, but I didn't look to see if this was one. The OP had reported the issue was gone once the snap version was installed, so to install it just enter

    sudo snap install libreoffice

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    This will result in two versions of LibreOffice installed (original deb and new snap version).

    Should you want to remove the originally supplied version it consists of these packages

    • libreoffice-calc
    • libreoffice-impress
    • libreoffice-writer
    • libreoffice-base-core
    • libreoffice-gtk3
    • libreoffice-qt5
    • libreoffice-style-breeze
    • libreoffice-draw
    • libreoffice-math
    • and some libs etc

    Those can be removed with

    sudo apt remove libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-impress
sudo apt remove libreoffice-core libreoffice-common
sudo apt remove libreoffice-style-breeze
sudo apt autoremove
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  2. Comment SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN in the /etc/xdg/xdg-Lubuntu/lxqt/session.conf file.

    Solution from: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1881364

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