Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 64630
Freehand Tool needs option to control smoothing
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:45:31 UTC
Using the freehand tool to draw into any of OOo's applications is working improper. All sharp edges are smoothed out. This can be seen when trying to draw a rectangle (or the letter 'z') with very sharp corners. This causes a problem when used with a graphic tablet to insert handwriting. Text is smoothed out and unreadable.
I think this is more of a defect than an enhancement.... Reproducible. Reassigned.
AW: Well, the freehand tool is designed to do smoothing, so this is no bug or defect. Main target group is mouse users, so smoothing is by purpose. When doing something with sharp edges like a 'z', the polyline tool should be used, it's designed to produce sharp edges. This should also work with a tablet, just set single corner points.
Ok, I can understand that the smoothing function works on purpose (though I dislike it, it does not perform well for me), but in that case there should be an option to set the level of smoothing actvity, like inceasing/decreasing and even turning it off, as that would make the tool much more flexible and would introduce a basic handwriting option to OO. How about that?
AW: That sounds much better and is a good idea. I will change to enchancement and adapt the title.
AW: Target moved
*** Issue 27392 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
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