Trying to set up LibreOffice on Windows. I opened Customization. I can't read text there because it's too faint. I also opened About LibreOffice. I can't read text there either, because it's too faint. It's Windows so it's a system-wide problem and there doesn't seem to be a system-wide solution. Increasing font sizes, increasing scaling, and reducing resolution quickly run into limited screen space.
Screen is 1920x1080. I was using 100% text size, 150% scaling, 1920x1080. I use Mactype to try to bolden text, with mixed success. It's just as unreadable if I use 100%, 100%, 1280x720. I can't test 100%, 150%, 1280x720.
Please copy and paste here the content of your Help - About by clicking the copy button. This allows us to know more about your system. Set to NEEDINFO. Change back to UNCONFIRMED after you have provided the information.
Version: 25.2.5.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 03d19516eb2e1dd5d4ccd751a0d6f35f35e08022 CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
The bug also affects Options. It seems to be triggered by "Use Skia for All Rendering." It doesn't seem to be affected by hardware acceleration or anti-aliasing. But I get a lot of rapid flashing in the Customize menu after disabling Skia.
In the unreleased 26.2, Skia is the only rendering backend. There was a recent improvement to text rendering on Windows both in the UI and in documents. You could try Win-x86_64@tb77-TDF from https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/current.html You might also check how forcing software rendering affects it.
Instant stabby headache trigger. Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 49279f6a01c4f07b723072c068a9c1eab5b7f292 CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Do you mean the headache comes from faint text or some kind of flashing? Did you try with Skia/Raster by forcing software rendering? In bug 166339 it was discussed that we should change the UI font family and size on Windows.
Faint text. I use Mactype to make Windows text readable. It turns out that changing Mactype settings changes the rendering without Skia, but changes nothing with Skia. So I suspect Skia is incompatible with Mactype. I don't know why the old version of Skia was just unreadable with eye strain and the new one is so much more painful. I tested the old version, so it's probably not the lighting. Unfortunately, Windows lacks built-in solutions to make its text readable. I'd suggest letting users pick interface fonts, perhaps using a drop-down list including semibold and bold options.
Aha, so https://www.mactype.net/ https://github.com/snowie2000/MacType
Also you can test modifying some of the options in Menu>Tools>Options>LibreOffice>Appearance Another option is to upgrade the graphics driver directly from the vendor.
I've updated my graphics driver. I've tried the options in the current version; they involve color customization, but don't seem to include font weight customization. I searched for "bold" and "readability" under themes, but found nothing. I still can't see the options in the development version, so I don't know if there are new options.
Bug 166399 complained that text wasn't faint enough, so I suspect the fix there pushed this from unreadable to painful.
Skia also breaks the reduce-resolution workaround.
Comment 12 should have referred to bug 166339. The following workarounds *do* work with Skia: * Reducing screen resolution, not just increasing scaling, since that doesn't work everywhere. * Reducing gamma, using display settings and special color profiles. I have a Gamma 0.5 icc profile which goes a long way to fix File Explorer, LibreOffice, and other apps with new-style rendering. However, I need to use Gamma 1.0 or 1.5 for other apps. * The combination of the blur at non-native resolution, and a low gamma, makes text somewhat bolder. Still, it's far from ideal. * Bug 166339 complained that Skia was using a low gamma, and asked it to recreate Windows-standard gamma.