Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 19841
scalable bitmapped X11 fonts wrong kerning
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:43:45 UTC
I found that when composing text using the scalable X11 fonts, as the fonts grows in size, the kerning between characters is shrinked. This appens for all the X11 scalable bitmapped fonts (i.e. non TTF, nor Type1) available to OpenOffice (fonts which can be distinguishable from the others as they are not antialiased). In particular this happens with fonts: Avant Garde Gothic Bookman Helvetica New Century Schoolbook Palatino Times Zapf Chancery OpenOffice 1.0.3.1 doesn't show this bug. Also on printing using such fonts for PostScript output (which threat as they were "resident"), lead to the wrong kerning.
Created attachment 9527 [details] example of wrong kerning output
Confirmed 1.1rc4 - RH9 Behavior not present in 1.0.2 Tam
reassigned to us @us: i think this is something for you
I can confirm this on a 1.1rc3 build.
Please let QA confirm and developers evaluate the issue before setting the target milestone. Thanks, Stefan
Hi Stefan -- That's what I was doing -- then I was told to set target milestone to 2.0 when confirming issue as "new". Please let me know where to get clarification on this? Thanks, Tam
Hi Tamblyne, my comment was targeted to "ghibo" who set the target to OOo 1.1. I think, we should first try to confirm issues before setting target milestones. This issue is still in state "UNCONFIRMED". Tamblyne, did you try to set the issue to "NEW" but this failed? I would suggest to leave the target milestone value up to developers. Would you raise this at the dev@qa list? Greetings Stefan
Hi, Stefan -- Thanks for the help. Yes, it looks like the New either didn't take, or I forgot to change it. Either way, I'm setting to "new". As to target milestone, I shall bring this up at the QA list for clarification. Further, behavior is still present in 1.1rc5. Thanks, Tam
Reproduced on RH9: Steps (as visible in the attached snap shot): 1. type dummy text 2. select all and change the font to "Times" 3. change font size to "80pt" => characters are overlapping each others US->HDU: I guess you already own a similar inhouse task. I remember we saw a similar task on my old RH box (don't have that anymore). Probably related to glyph substitution.
Yes, looks like the fix for issue 16573 or #110717# will also fix this one. The fix is in CWS vcl7pp1r2. I'm closing this as a duplicate then. Please reopen if the problem should still show up in OOo 1.1.1. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 16573 ***
HDU->US: I suggest to verify the fix on the CWS vcl7pp1r2.
indeed: vcl7pp1r2 solves this problem. Thx. HDU.
Verified in vcl7pp1r2. Fix (probably) gets into OOo 1.1.1.
*** Issue 21709 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Verified on MWS srx645_m27s1-1.8738. Will be integrated in forthcomming OOo 1.1.1. Closing dupe.