Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 107716
Letterspacing broken on Screen and when printing
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:17:46 UTC
Letterspacing broken on Screen and when printing. The bug is not present in NeoOffice, which is a good work-around. Letter-spacing is broken (a) on-screen and (b) printing (see attached files with screen-shot and the PDF generated by printing). It is not as strong when PDF is generated from OpenOffice (see attached pdf). However, editing spaced text can be a pain, because the logical cursor is at a different point from the visual cursor. PS: For me, the issue was fixed in some 3.0 release but reappeared in 3.1 (the version 310m19 checked above is the one I'm running now; see issue 95119). Sorry to open a new issue but in nearly half a year, nobody responded to my messages at issue 95119 and I do not find a way to reopen the bug. (Should I file a bug of the Issue tracker; is reopening deliberately omitted in the advice on using the issue tracker?) Do you request a donation to look into the regression?
Created attachment 66657 [details] screen shot showing spaced text
Created attachment 66658 [details] PDF created by printing from OpenOffice
Created attachment 66659 [details] PDF created by generating a PDF from within OpenOffice
Created attachment 66660 [details] PDF created by generating a PDF from within OpenOffice
Created attachment 66661 [details] PDF generated from NeoOffice (best spacing imho)
Created attachment 66662 [details] ODT document used for the above
Implicitly it's there but maybe I should be mire explicit: (a) I like OpenOffice Writer a lot, esp. for its crossplatformness, which is why I would like to continue using it. (b) I only experience the letter-spacing problem on Macs (running 10.6, and 10.5 before), but not on Linux or Windows.
@HDU: looks like a recurrence of issue 91183.
Thanks so much for looking into this! By the way, I recently noticed that letterspacing is correct on screen (not in print) if control characters are displayed.
OOo 3.3 is nearly final. I change the target of this issue to OOo 3.x. Please find a solution and set a correct target, if you know when a fix can be integrated.
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".