Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 15311
Hairline (0,05 pt) border not to distinguish from 1 pt border
Last modified: 2017-05-20 09:54:43 UTC
Boundaries: It is impossible to distinguish the hairline border (0,05 pt) from the 1 pt border in normal view (100% zoom). Only in zoom factors above 150% you can tell them apart. How about displaying the hairline border in "dotted lines", just like, erm, MS Excel does it?
Created attachment 6667 [details] example spreadsheet: 0,05 pt, 1pt, 2,5 pt, 4 pt borders
Created attachment 6668 [details] example borders in MS Excel
BTW, this is the case ever since I first used OOo (1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1beta1, 1.1beta2). This is my first issue, hope I made everything right. :)
This will be fixed by issue 8275 => duplicate *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 8275 ***
closed because duplicate
Reopened according to a discussion on the german UL with cloph at openoffice.org. This issue is not a duplicate of 8275, because it's really just about distiguishing the hairline and the 1 pt border. Which seems not to be covered in issue 8275 (please correct me if I'm wrong). Suggestion (by cloph): Add an option to "view hairline dotted/continuos/pink/whatever".
Hi Bettina, please decide. Frank
setting keywords, subcomponent according to new RFE-process Sum-up: add option/possibility to distinguish a hairline border form a 1pt border Excel does this by displaying the hairline with a ultra-fine dotted line. Another possibility would be a different color, similar to field shadings.
Note this is still the case with Version 2.2.1 (just checked on Debian Unstable), unless using a zoom of 150% or above.
do not change the version field as it shows the first occurence of a problem and is a vital information for the developer. If you want to point out that this problem still happens, just add a comment.
Given that my reported issue is nearly as about 10 years old and not being worked on, I close it.
ALG: I see this as invalid anyways. The discrete pixel display can never be an ideal presentation of the model data. A hairline which is defined to always be the smallest amount wide in the current target (1 pixel on displays) will of course be visualized in some zoom stages the same as a line which has a defined width. In this case in all zoom stages which make the line with defined width map to a display width of one pixel, too. I see no workarounds here; using a special color or dotted lines just makes the WYSIWIG more bad.