Hard To Read, Low Contrast Fonts

I have a problem: my system is showing me hard to read, low contrast fonts.
Here's a screenshot to prove it:
As you can see, the fonts are quite greyish instead of black. I tried the freetype2-lcd method as described in the wiki "Fonts" article. Still no success. I'm running XFCE on a 1680x1050 LCD display. Is there a way to fix this problem?

Bender02 is right -- openoffice adjusts its own colors to match the colors of the gtk theme by default. The easy solution, for openoffice, is to go to Tools/Options/Appearance and set the background color to white and font color to black -- or whatever you like.
Last edited by fwojciec (2008-04-16 00:05:44)

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