Issue 34476 - Bar Chart x-axis labels are badly formatted per default
Summary: Bar Chart x-axis labels are badly formatted per default
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: chart (show other issues)
Version: 3.3.0 or older (OOo)
Hardware: All Windows XP
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kla
QA Contact: issues@graphics
URL: http://www.jciconsult.com/uploads/OOC...
Keywords: usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-09-22 02:48 UTC by jciconsult
Modified: 2013-02-24 21:22 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Issue Type: DEFECT
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---


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zipped open office file (24.02 KB, application/x-compressed)
2004-09-22 02:49 UTC, jciconsult
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Description jciconsult 2004-09-22 02:48:25 UTC
Column charts work reasonably effectively.  If the chart is converted to a bar 
chart (i.e. bars are horizontal, the bar labels are very badly formatted).  In 
many cases, they do not show up.  The problem is that the area occupied by the 
bars squeezes out the area for the bar labels.  An example is seen in tab1 in 
the spreadsheet found at the URL.
Comment 1 jciconsult 2004-09-22 02:49:42 UTC
Created attachment 17850 [details]
zipped open office file
Comment 2 kla 2004-09-22 07:45:44 UTC
Set Prio to an realistic value.
Comment 3 zman4001 2004-09-23 06:23:41 UTC
hello Jciconsult,
I was able to confirm this error.  I made a few of my own charts entering 
random row labels as well as working with small and large numbers.  I changed 
how much data was in the field as well. Usaully at around 10 different enteries 
into the chart the formatting becomes horrible.  I did find something 
interesting though.  If you click "show text elements in preview" as you are 
creating the chart, the labels look much better in the preview than in the 
final chart.  Changeing the size of the chart also does not help, usualy just 
makes text larger instead of allowing more room for it to all fit. Not being 
able to properly lable chats will make them practically useless for end-user 
application.  Error was replicated on Windows 2000 OS with 2.8 Ghz P4 and 1 gig 
Ram OO build 1.1.2.

-Adam 
Comment 4 jciconsult 2004-09-23 12:33:58 UTC
I have been evaluating open office for business use.  Bar charts are one of the 
key presentation tools that most business types like.  One of my major 
criticims about open office is that there are lots of cute but not necessary 
gee whiz features but standard usability requirements for business work, such 
as bomb proof standard charts, has not been well tested.  I will document one 
or two of those when I have time but I am going to end up reporting that the 
package is not ready for business use yet.
Comment 5 mcardill 2004-09-24 02:55:43 UTC
I have confirmed this bug on both Windows and Linux platforms. It happens
whenever creating a chart, but it can be fixed by double clicking the chart, and
moving the actual graph itself within the space allocated for the chart
originally. Still, the chart should definitly not start out badly formatted.
Comment 6 bjoern.milcke 2004-09-24 10:35:46 UTC
When you create a bar-chart (horizntal bars) from scratch, the labels are not
shifted out of the visible area, but they are cropped.  This is becuase the
option "Break Labels" is checked.  When you uncheck this, you get readable labels.
(Select in Menu: Format/Axis/X-Axis..., go to tab "Label" and uncheck "Break")

The chart in your example has the option "Stagger odd" set for labels (same
tabpage as mentioned before).  There is a bug, that the shifting out of every
second label is not taken into account when the space needed is calculated.  To
avoid this, you can select "Tile" or "Automatic".

If you still want the staggering, you have to switch it off first, and then
resize the diagram, such that there is some whitespace on the left, and then
reset the staggering option.

Sorry for the inconveniences.  The effort of re-implementing a new chart-engine
is still in progress, and we will improve this behaviour there.
Comment 7 jciconsult 2004-09-24 13:23:18 UTC
Thanks for all the advice, I was able to get decent charts.  The ability to 
size the chart to adjust for labels would be very useful.  It is there but does 
not work very well.  Specifically, with the default sizing options, when I 
click on the bar chart, I see sizing rectangles only in the middle of the top 
and bottom of the chart.  In most bar charts, the sizing rectangles at the 
corners are outsize the plot area by default.  If I mess the sizing using the 
size dialog, I can get a "handle" on them.  Then it is possible to adjust bar 
charts to look more useful.  I should emphasize that as a consultant simple 
features such as bar charts are used 10x more often than more sophisticated 
charting options.
Comment 8 kla 2004-10-14 09:33:04 UTC
In case of the effort of re-implementing the new chart-engine
is still in progress => target OOo Later
Comment 9 bjoern.milcke 2004-10-27 17:18:25 UTC
accepted
Comment 10 IngridvdM 2006-03-17 17:54:08 UTC
iha->bm: I'll take this issue.
Comment 11 IngridvdM 2006-03-17 17:55:04 UTC
accepted
Comment 12 IngridvdM 2007-03-14 19:12:11 UTC
This is fixed with the re-implementation of the chart module in CWS chart2mst3.
Look at the Ole Object 'Object 1' in the attached document. The category axis
labels now get enough space.
Comment 13 IngridvdM 2007-03-20 12:53:09 UTC
->Thomas, please verify.
Comment 14 kla 2007-03-27 15:01:03 UTC
verified
Comment 15 p9w.vu.31122010 2007-06-14 13:43:37 UTC
Verified in MWS 680 m215, closing.