Issue 23853

Created attachment 12110 [details]
Font in this screenshot is all set to Arial Bold at pt 6.

Created attachment 12111 [details]
Spacings look messed up when typing something into cell in-line

Hi Kohei,
I'm sometimes have problems with ugly spacing too. But there's no difference
between auto linebreak on or off. Is there anything special about your system?
E.g. asian locales.

Peter

Actually I work in the US (has worked in the last 6+ years), so my locale is
en_US.  I use fully updated Fedora Core 1 (x86), and that's where I initially
noticed this problem.  Just FYI, my system uses the default freetype library as
I assume that's relevant.

Here is the output of the command 'locale' on my system:

[kohei@hydro kohei]$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I've reported it as a problem in 680m17, but I've also confirmed it in 1.1.1a on
Linux.  Windows version of 1.1.1a doesn't exhibit this problem running on Win2k SP4.

Well, Peter, can we reopen this issue until at least someone using FC1 can test
it?  I'm actually reopening this issue anyway.  If that's a problem, please
change it to resolved (though I want it to remain open) again.

Kohei

Actually I was wrong about the Win version not exhibiting this problem.  I've
confirmed it today that, on my system running a US English version of Windows
2000 with SP4, the font spacings become a bit off when the automatic line break
is on, AND the content is wrapped.  You may have to set the font size to 6 pt &
the zoom to 200% to actually see it, though.   It becomes really obvious with 5
pt font size zoomed to 300%.  Not as bad as the problem on Linux, but it's there.

It was confirmed using 1.1.1a for Windows (US English).  I haven't tested it on
680m17, but since this seems like a platform-agnostic issue, I assume it's there
also.  So I will leave the version info unchanged.

reassigned to Peter

Hi Kohei,

could you please check if the document:
http://gsl.openoffice.org/files/documents/16/350/FontTroubleshooting-v2.pdf
resolves you're issue.

Peter

No. :(

I've read through it.  The document only covers general font problems that apply
globally across the program.  Mine is very specific, it only happens when the
font size is small (< 6) and the automatic line break is ON within a cell.  You
need to set the zoom to 400% to be able to see it, but it's there, and looks
ugly on paper when printed.

Plus, the document mostly covers problems related to X server and freetype
library on *nix platform.  This problem occurs on Windows platform also.

I don't know the internals of OOo, but this problem is very much similar to
Issue 15437 where the developers discovered that the cause of the problem was
the incorrect dpi resolution (600 dpi) which coarsened the font matrics.  The
problem was fixed by setting the resolution back to 2400 dpi (original setting)
for the calculation of font placement.  I'm just wondering if the old 600 dpi
algorithm still kicks in somehow when the automatic line break of a cell is
turned on.

The problem is not yet resolved, so I'm reopening this issue.

Kohei

Funny,
400% works best for me. But zooming in/out with CTRL+Mousewheel shows several
percentages where font spacing is indeed very ugly. Seems to be the same in writer.

@US: Any idea, maybe duplicate

Issue is a dupe of issue 22540.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 22540 ***

Pls. see issue 22540 for details.
Closing dupe.