Hi,

It seems if I install stock ttf fonts (like Times New Roman - direct from 
the HP LaserJet official disk), and I make sure that text is full 
"justified" (both right and left and not ragged right
and that anti-aliasing is enabled,  I can literally make many
many leading letters of words appear to become disconnected from the
remaining letters of the word, but only under OOo 1.1 series (1.1 Beta 
and 644m10, etc) builds.

The problem only happens with BOTH full justification
and anti-aliasing.

It seems to occur when a "short" sentence needs to be spread out a
lot to become right justified and somehow the distance between the
letters in words are increased (along with the increased whitespace 
between words) resulting in the lead letter of a word becoming 
"detached" from the word itself (way far out in front).


I have exchanged e-mails with Herbert about this and I have
sent to him a small sample document and the fonts I have used
so that he might recreate this issue.

BTW, this issue was confirmed by another user on dev@porting
this morning.

I have included his confirmation below:

---snip---

And here was I thinking it was just a font kerning issue related to the
particular font I was using. I can confirm this on my Linux Beta 1.1
install. As you state, it only occurs with justified text. I see this
with the Helvetica font, for instance, and the font is fully
anti-aliased.

Alex.

---snip---

The bug in question only happens with 644/1.1 builds (it works fine in
OOO_STABLE_1 based builds.

In addition, when printed the problem does not appear in the
printed output.  The problem only appears on the screen.

I have tried to track it down using hints from Hamburg but
the pDXAry values look fine to me (but I must admit I am 
not sure how to interpret the debug output yet).

If someone can point me to the actual code that
does the justification part, I coould try to help track
down this issue further.

Thanks,

Kevin