Issue 11609

Summary: preserve Extended spacing of characters on export to HTML (Netscape setting)
Product: Writer Reporter: rcabane <rcoo>
Component: save-exportAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: issues, oooqa, sgautier.ooo
Version: OOo 1.0.1Keywords: oooqa, rfe_eval_ok, usability
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Latest Confirmation in: ---
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Description Flags
Test text file, in SXW format, showing expanded/condensed styles
none
SXW & HTML converted file + modified HTML none

Description rcabane 2003-02-18 21:16:36 UTC
It seems that Writer can't preserve this special formatting when writing HTML
files. Although, the CSS specification allows this, by means of the
"line-spacing"  format (given in percentage, not in points).
Adding this to the HTML export would be quite simple.
Comment 1 prgmgr 2003-06-23 21:29:19 UTC
Thank you for using and supporting OOo.

Robert, could you please attach a file that demonstrates this problem
or at least list the steps to reproduce this problem?
Comment 2 rcabane 2003-06-24 17:07:08 UTC
Created attachment 7111 [details]
Test text file, in SXW format, showing expanded/condensed styles
Comment 3 rcabane 2003-06-24 17:11:48 UTC
Created attachment 7112 [details]
SXW & HTML converted file + modified HTML
Comment 4 rcabane 2003-06-24 17:14:18 UTC
OK I checked the CSS specs.
You can specify by points (pt).
Please look the the enclosed documents:
* expand.sxw -> test file with styles
* expand.html -> exported file from OO.o 1.1b (ignores exp/con spc)
* expand2.html -> modified by hand
I changed the CSS styles P.exp-western & P.con-western, adding the
"letter-spacing" specification.
Works fine with Mozilla & Konqueror.
Just a caveat: the exact character placement will depend of the
navigator, anymay.

Please change the status of this issue to 'STARTED'.

Robert
Comment 5 eric.savary 2003-06-30 17:02:57 UTC
Hi Robert!

Go to "Tools - Options - Load/Save - HTML Compatiblity" and choose as
export "MSIE" or "OOo Writer" before saving.
Comment 6 eric.savary 2003-06-30 17:04:01 UTC
ES->BH: Mozilla and the current version of Netscape know this
"letter-spacing" attribute. So the the Netscape export filter should
know it too.
Comment 7 rcabane 2003-07-01 18:22:04 UTC
I agree with ES & BH remarks.
At present, the "letter-spacing" attribute is ignored by HTML 3.2 and
Netscape exports, and respected by MSIE and OOW exports.
It seems that the Netscape export respects quite old Netscape
standard; now Mozilla does quite a lot more...
Comment 8 eric.savary 2003-07-03 11:24:48 UTC
Yes but OOo has no "Mozilla" filter qo we keep focused on Netscape.
Comment 9 eric.savary 2003-07-03 11:44:46 UTC
...at least, Netscape 7.0 supports this. But not Netscape 4.7.9
Comment 10 rcabane 2003-07-03 14:08:58 UTC
The "no Mozilla filter" is the problem, since Netscape could disappear
(for commercial reasons) and Mozilla continue its way.
Incidentally, the Netscape 4.7 slowly goes behind since NS 6 & NS 7
are viable.
I insist on supporting the NS/Moz branch since they're the ONLY
browsers usable on ANY platform (Unix, Winx, Mac).
On the other side, other Linux browser's (like konqueror) behaviour
are quite close to IE but this last point should be checked.

Comment 11 bettina.haberer 2003-11-11 16:47:02 UTC
This issue is considered for 'Office later' as HTML export is not a
keyfeature for OO.o 2.0.
Comment 12 sgautier.ooo 2004-09-12 11:48:54 UTC
reassigning & adding keywords according to new RFE process - sophie- 
Comment 13 lohmaier 2004-09-17 01:21:25 UTC
updated summary.
Comment 14 ace_dent 2008-05-16 00:38:31 UTC
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

The Issue you raised is currently assigned to 'Requirements' pending review, but
has not been updated within the last 3 years. Please consider re-testing with
one of the latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been
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