Issue 19357 - Font kerning incorrect
Summary: Font kerning incorrect
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 15437
Alias: None
Product: Draw
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: OOo 1.1.1
Assignee: christian.guenther
QA Contact: issues@graphics
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-09-10 04:32 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2004-01-28 15:55 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Developer Difficulty: ---

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Attached document reveals substantial differences in the kerning as applied by Write and Draw. Maybe this helps sorting out this issue. (14.89 KB, application/x-stardraw)
2003-10-18 11:45 UTC, jvromans 		no flags Details
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Description Unknown 2003-09-10 04:32:30 UTC 
I've tested over 50 fonts, and all suffer from this issue.  The kerning is
incorrect, such as "Original" looks like "O riginal" but not quite that extreme.
 Also when bolding text, unless the text has a separate bold font, the letters
collide.  It basically makes OO unsuitable for any type of professional
document, unless one is using a monotype font where it doesn't matter.  I've
confirmed that other applications (such as Gimp) in Linux and Windows using the
same fonts have no such issue. I'm using Type1 fonts, my TT fonts don't even
show up in OO (i.e. I can select them but it is just white space) though they
work in Gimp and other applications just fine.

Anyway, if OO is expected to make any impact, this needs fixed.  Let me know if
you need any more info.  Screenshots are available on request which show the
difference between a correctly rendered font in Gimp, versus the incorrect
rendering present under OO.
Comment 1 wolframgarten 2003-09-10 07:24:55 UTC 
Reassigned to Christian.
Comment 2 wolframgarten 2003-09-10 10:16:52 UTC 
Priority changed from 1 to 3.
Comment 3 alex.thurgood 2003-09-25 09:54:51 UTC 
This problem appears to be solved in OOo RC5. I remember that the beta
and RC1 had font kerning issues in writer as well when the text was
justified.

Could you try reproducing this on the latest release candidate ?

Alex
Comment 4 christian.guenther 2003-10-01 08:27:17 UTC 
set to new and change the target.
Comment 5 christian.guenther 2003-10-01 08:32:21 UTC 
We've done some fixes which will solve this bug. The fixes will be
integrated in the OOo 1.1.1
To reproduce the bug and test if it works with this fixes please
attach a screen shot and the corresponding Impress file.
Comment 6 jvromans 2003-10-18 11:45:48 UTC 
Created attachment 10435 [details]
Attached document reveals substantial differences in the kerning as applied by Write and Draw. Maybe this helps sorting out this issue.
Comment 7 christian.guenther 2003-11-06 11:53:46 UTC 
This issue is duplicate to issue 15437

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 15437 ***
Comment 8 christian.guenther 2004-01-28 15:55:47 UTC 
The fix is integrated in OOo1.1.1 on Sols, Lin, Win.
This version will be available soon.