Issue 19501

Summary:	Strange behaviour with type 1 Combinumerals font
Product:	gsl	Reporter:	acli <acli>
Component:	code	Assignee:	ulf.stroehler
Status:	CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE	QA Contact:	issues@ui <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	OOo 1.1 RC4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux, all
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description acli 2003-09-12 21:24:43 UTC

If I set some text in Combinumerals (type 1 font from
<URL:http://www.fontsite.com/Pages/FFDownloads.html>), both the text and the
cursor disappears.

Oddities:

- The cursor disappears (in the case of such font change in Writer) in addition
to the text disappearing

- The font seems to work in any type-1-aware apps including the X font server,
Ghostscript, Freetype, etc.

- The glyph names in the font seem to have nothing out of the ordinary.

I've tried both the Writer and the Spreadsheet. In both apps the text and the
cursor would disappear if I change the font to this font.

Comment 1 Oliver Specht 2003-09-15 06:55:22 UTC

Reassigned to PL

Comment 2 christof.pintaske 2003-09-15 09:45:29 UTC

1.1rc4 works quite fine for me on Sparc with combinumerals

Comment 3 acli 2003-09-15 14:43:48 UTC

Did you try with the Type 1 version of Combinumerals or the Truetype
version?

Comment 4 philipp.lohmann 2003-10-08 14:18:12 UTC

I cannot see the problem either (i tried 1.1). This may be freetype
related, what freetype2 version do you use ?

Comment 5 philipp.lohmann 2003-12-10 12:42:34 UTC

pl->us: could not reproduce this, could you take over ?

Comment 6 philipp.lohmann 2003-12-10 12:45:02 UTC

Comment 7 acli 2003-12-10 14:26:35 UTC

User error due to unexpected requirement to use Type 1 fonts (need to "add"
them, which is rather counter-intuitive given all the visual hints that OOo is
giving the user that the font is working).

Better documentation might be workaround.

Comment 8 philipp.lohmann 2003-12-11 09:55:05 UTC

This would point to a problem regarding X11 fonts; you didn't have the font
available to OOo directly but to the Xserver.

Comment 9 philipp.lohmann 2003-12-11 09:57:11 UTC

pl->hdu: The description points to a problem with X fonts.

Comment 10 hdu@apache.org 2003-12-11 13:38:25 UTC

Does the problem still occur in OOo 1.1?

If yes, is the problem still there when you enable the "View -> OnlineLayout"
menue item? Is the problem still there when you enable the "Tools -> Options ->
TextDocument -> General -> UsePrinterMetrics" checkbox?

What X11 server do you use? (use "xdyinfo | fgrep version")

Comment 11 hdu@apache.org 2004-01-09 10:43:14 UTC

HDU->US: No feedback from reporter yet. Can you recreate the problem?

Comment 12 acli 2004-01-14 18:18:39 UTC

This really is a documentation / UI (usability) issue, not a gsl/code issue. The
observed bug per se does not stand as a valid report. So I am closing it myself.

Comment 13 ulf.stroehler 2004-07-16 21:32:52 UTC

Closing invalid.