I am using LibreOffice 3.5.3.2 (Ubuntu 12.04) and the buttons to switch tabs in Calc are written with small fonts. They're so small I can't even read what is written on them.
I could not find a way to increase font size. Is this problem happenning only with me? Does anyone know a way to increase the font size of sheet names?
I had similar problem with elementary theme. Although the problem was that the scrollbars were too thin. The fix was to modify the scrollbar width in gtkrc file, in my case:
find:
and set the value to something like 10
Different themes can have different effect on applications. Sometimes this can cause serious problems as shown below. Sheet tabs are hardly readable in first theme but are very clear in second theme.
So changing your system theme can solve this problem.
If your preferred theme shows too small fonts in the UI components of LibreOffice, you could just scale the textual UI elements (between 80% and 130%) while keeping the theme. LibreOffice has an option for scaling in Menu
Options
->LibreOffice
->View
:So, you can modify the font size between
(80 percent)
and
(130 percent).
Note: This will affect all textual UI elements, also menu entries and so on - not only the sheet labels.
Another alternative would be to keep the theme but modify the font settings system-wide. Gnome's appearance settings allow for modifying the font even if a certain theme is selected.
More Info:
I found this in a file called ~/.themes/Zen-bicolor/gtk-2.0/apps/libreoffice.rc and I copied it to ~/.themes/Zen-bicolor/gtk-2.0/gtk-widgets.rc
Seems somebody already fixed the problem, just had to move it to a file where it would get picked up. It should affect everything but so far nothing else seems mis-sized and libreoffice is useable again.
Open any of the Libre Office programs, the go to:
Tools / Options, then select LibreOffice / View, and Change User Interface / Scaling to more than 100%.
This will change the environment proportionally.
A quick fix is to click on view, zoom, zoom, change the 100% to 150%.