bold and normal fonts appear reversed in openoffice

From: H. S. (g_reate_xcalibur_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/14/04 

Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:38:20 -0400

I posted this on Debian-user mailing list (read-only at newsgroup:
linux.debian.user), no response. So I am posting this here.

I was trying OpenOffice on my Sid box running 2.4.26-1-686 kernel, and
noticed that some fonts (Times and Palladino for example) appear
reversed. This happens when apply a style to a body of text. Suppose I
make it Text Body, and then modify the style so that Text Body is normal
Times font. If I choose the font to be normal, it appears as bold
onscreen and vice versa. However, it prints properly (I tried printing
to a PDF file).

I then tried this to check this on my box running Sarge (2.4.26-1-686)
and that too showed similar behavior.

Moreover, the bold button on the tool bar doesn't seem to have any
effect on the appearance of the font on screen.

Anybody else experiencing this problem?

Here is what I have on Sid box:
~$ dpkg -l openoff* | grep '^ii.*'
ii openoffice.org 1.1.1-2 high-quality office productivity suite
ii openoffice.org 1.1.1-2 OpenOffice.org office suite binary files
ii openoffice.org 1.1.1-2+3 Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org
ii openoffice.org 1.1+20030814-3 OpenOffice.org office suite help (English)
ii openoffice.org 1.1.1-2 English (US) language package for
openoffice
ii openoffice.org 1.1.1-2 French language package for openoffice.org
ii openoffice.org 1.1.1-2 OpenOffice.org MIME bindings for KDE

and on Sarge, I have this:
$> dpkg -l openoff* | grep '^ii.*'
ii openoffice.org 1.1.1-2 high-quality office productivity suite
ii openoffice.org 1.1.1-2 OpenOffice.org office suite binary files
ii openoffice.org 1.1.1-2+2 Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org
ii openoffice.org 1.1+20030814-3 OpenOffice.org office suite help (English)
ii openoffice.org 1.1.1-2 English (US) language package for
openoffice

->HS 

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