Issue 24834 - small text displayed wrongly
Summary: small text displayed wrongly
Status: ACCEPTED
Alias: None
Product: Draw
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1.1
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P4 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO Later
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Reported: 2004-01-26 17:24 UTC by acfb
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:29 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Screenshot of "This is a long text with size 1 - it's purpose is to test if OpenOffice.org Draw displays it somewhat correctly, nothing more." (4.42 KB, image/png)
2004-01-26 17:26 UTC, acfb 		no flags Details
Example sxd file. (2.43 KB, application/vnd.sun.xml.draw)
2004-03-03 13:23 UTC, acfb 		no flags Details
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Description acfb 2004-01-26 17:24:50 UTC 
Using very small text sizes (e.g. Times/Times New Roman at size 2) gives strange
character positioning making the text unreadable. The wrong display applies also
for pdf output.
Comment 1 acfb 2004-01-26 17:26:14 UTC 
Created attachment 12731 [details]
Screenshot of "This is a long text with size 1 - it's purpose is to test if OpenOffice.org Draw displays it somewhat correctly, nothing more."
Comment 2 rblackeagle 2004-01-26 20:24:07 UTC 
I don't understand this one.  8pt type is considered "small type" in legal
documents (barely readable with perfect vision).  Sizes smaller than 6pt are
close to illegible even if printed perfectly.  2pt type would be almost
invisible (showing up as a wiggling line).  1pt would be no larger than the
period at the end of a sentence.

For qa purposes (if that's where this ends up), it might help to know why you
want such tiny type.  I'm just a user, but am also a writer.  Anything smaller
than 10pt type is rarely encountered these days, as difficult to read text (8pt
or smaller) is considered unreadable in many courtrooms.
Comment 3 wolframgarten 2004-01-27 07:53:15 UTC 
Which font are you using? Does the same problem occur in writer and calc? Thanks
for your help.
Comment 4 acfb 2004-01-27 17:41:13 UTC 
@wg: in calc or writer I cannot zoom enough to read it :), but in pdf export it
appears correct in both. The font used is Times New Roman, with Times it's the same.

@rblackeagle: Of course it's not really readable. But if you scale a huge enough
document onto A4 size, you get such text sizes.
Comment 5 wolframgarten 2004-03-03 12:39:17 UTC 
Do you use special settings or so when scaling down the document? Normally the
font size stays the same, no matter how you scale the containing  document.
Comment 6 acfb 2004-03-03 13:21:59 UTC 
No, sorry, this was unclear. I do not scale the OOo document at all. I wrote a
conversion utility (fig2sxd) and use it to import postscript graphics into OOo;
the scaling is on the postscript side.

Now I also attached the .sxd file.
Comment 7 acfb 2004-03-03 13:23:17 UTC 
Created attachment 13554 [details]
Example sxd file.
Comment 8 wolframgarten 2004-03-03 15:40:57 UTC 
Thanks for the bugdoc. Reproducible - text is badly readable under linux.
Reassigned to Christian.
Comment 9 clippka 2004-03-23 14:41:36 UTC 
should be caused by the printer independend layout using a resolution that is to
low.
Andrè, I think you have a similiar issue with spacing between small glyphs.
Please evaluate if this is duplicate.
Comment 10 groucho266 2004-04-07 13:57:59 UTC 
Accepted.
Comment 11 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:29:45 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".