Issue 51508 - Font Spacing Inconsistent After Zoom
Summary: Font Spacing Inconsistent After Zoom
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0 Beta
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.4.0
Assignee: kla
QA Contact: issues@sc
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Reported: 2005-07-03 16:17 UTC by neiby
Modified: 2017-05-20 10:30 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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


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Comparison of text between Excel and Calc (25.71 KB, image/jpeg)
2005-07-03 16:17 UTC, neiby
no flags Details
kerning problem when zooming in calc (15.53 KB, image/png)
2008-04-11 02:47 UTC, micawber
no flags Details

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Description neiby 2005-07-03 16:17:03 UTC
The spacing between characters seems to become rather variable and unpleasant
after zooming in or out. Some letter pairs get squashed together while others
have too much space between them. 

I'll attach a picture of what I'm talking about. The top half of the image is
from Excel and the bottom is from OOo Calc. The font is Helvetica 9 pt and the
document is zoomed to 71% normal size. 

One of the words is "Englewood". OOo jams the "g" and the "l" right up against
each other and leaves a large gap between the "l" and the "e". This makes it
look like two words: Engl ewood.
Comment 1 neiby 2005-07-03 16:17:55 UTC
Created attachment 27671 [details]
Comparison of text between Excel and Calc
Comment 2 neiby 2005-07-03 16:21:44 UTC
You'll also notice that in the word "Nichols" that the "i" is jammed up against
the "N". And the first three letters of "Avenue" are jammed so tightly as to be
almost illegible.

This is a minor annoyance but I see it fairly often because I often work with
documents that are typically shrunk to about 80-85%. The effect is quite
noticable at that zoom level.
Comment 3 Rainer Bielefeld 2005-07-03 17:57:36 UTC
Hi nedal_da, can you please specify the OOo version for which you see this problem?

In 1.1.4 and 2.0 (1.9.m104) English version WIN XP: [680m104(Build8913)] there
is no problem to select "Print only selected sheet" in Tools/Options/OOo
Calc/Print (pls, see screenshot!). This preselection was permanent for all
further prints. So I do not understand your problem. May be you want tat
preselection only for special documents and not general? Please contribute a
distinct specification for your problem!

Thanks, Rainer
Comment 4 Rainer Bielefeld 2005-07-03 18:01:40 UTC
Sorry for SPAM, wrong issue! Please ignore  "Additional comments from
rainerbielefeld Sun Jul 3 09:57:36 -0700 2005"! 
Comment 5 neiby 2005-07-06 03:02:18 UTC
I figured it out, and this does appear to be a bug. The formatting in the cells
was set differently than it would be in a new spreadsheet. Here's how you can
recreate it using the same text I was using:

1. Open up Calc
2. Type "Cisco Englewood Office" in a cell
3. Widen the column a bit larger than is necessary to hold the text
4. Right-click on the cell and select Format Cells
5. Go to the Alignment tab and set the horizontal alignment to Left
6. On the same page, select the "Wrap text automatically" checkbox
7. Hit OK and return to the document
8. Resize the column so that the rightmost column boundary is squarely over the
"e" in Office

There you go, bunged up text. Let me know if you can recreate it. I may not be
doing a good enough job describing how to do it.

Thanks,
John
Comment 6 frank 2005-07-12 11:17:47 UTC
Hi Niklas,

as discussed Target later and yours.

Frank
Comment 7 zambitol 2006-01-26 19:12:01 UTC
I’m running OOo 2.0.1 in Windows XP SP2 build 2600.  I followed the steps as
described by neiby.  What happens is that “Cisco Englewood” is not longer
visible in the cell, all you can see is “Office” and a little arrow at the
rightmost column boundary.  If I resize the height of the cell, then everything
appears as normal (that is that the contents in the cell appears as follows):

“Cisco Englewood
 Office”
Comment 8 neiby 2006-01-27 04:27:43 UTC
Very interesting! I hadn't tried playing around with this since the official
release. I just tried it again and it is definitely fixed. The current behavior
is not what I was seeing prior to the official release. I'll have to go open up
some of the other Excel worksheets I have that I know looked bad before.

Thanks for the update. It reminded me to try this again.
Comment 9 micawber 2008-04-11 02:43:55 UTC
This issue is replicated in issue 73967 and is still apparent in 2.4 Kerning is
messed up when zooming applied, also line weights vary, see attachment (id=52703)

Comment 10 micawber 2008-04-11 02:47:01 UTC
Created attachment 52742 [details]
kerning problem when zooming in calc
Comment 11 hdu@apache.org 2008-04-11 11:03:54 UTC
The root cause behind all this is that Calc formats its cells on an abstract reference device that is 
independent from the printer, display, and other physical devices. This approach allows e.g. line breaks to 
be independent of the zoom level.

To get the best possible text quality the layout should be done on exactly the same device that is the 
display target. From the point of view of the issue reporter the screen is this target device .
Comment 12 micawber 2008-04-12 07:21:59 UTC
In other words, it has to be fixed, right? A lot of people zoom their
spreadsheets, and it looks awful with zoom applied, especially when compared to
the competition, who do it perfectly.
Comment 13 neiby 2008-04-12 07:30:00 UTC
I agree that this needs to be fixed. I opened this bug three years ago. I rarely
use OOo Calc anymore, but for a long time I was using Excel regularly and I
usually had my spreadsheets zoomed. I was always surprised at how bad those same
spreadsheets looked in Calc. I know the OOo developers are extremely busy, but
I'm surprised that this is still an issue.
Comment 14 micawber 2009-11-04 10:07:31 UTC
This flaw is still unfixed in the latest Calc version (3.1.1)

I've seen it on 3 different brands of computers over several years now. Why is
there no action on this?
Comment 15 micawber 2010-02-10 00:09:03 UTC
If I check "Use printer metrics for text formatting" in the
Options-->Calc-->General tab, this problem is solved.

Suggestion: set this option to "on" as default in new installations.
Comment 16 frank.loehmann 2010-11-26 10:42:31 UTC
This has to be fixed. Dancing characters look unprofessional. 
Comment 17 niklas.nebel 2010-12-02 18:35:52 UTC
Fixed in CWS "dr78".
Comment 18 niklas.nebel 2011-02-28 14:09:16 UTC
Reassigning to QA for verification.
Comment 19 niklas.nebel 2011-02-28 14:13:40 UTC
re-reassigning
Comment 20 kla 2011-03-16 13:58:51 UTC
Seen ok in cws dr78 -> verified