Issue 61502 - Pair Kerning appears to be broken for TrueType fonts
Summary: Pair Kerning appears to be broken for TrueType fonts
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 61023
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.1
Hardware: All Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: eric.savary
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords: oooqa
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2006-02-02 03:13 UTC by thatchermo
Modified: 2006-02-02 21:16 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description thatchermo 2006-02-02 03:13:55 UTC 
Pair Kerning appears to be broken for TrueType fonts. To see this, enter text
such as "To AVA." Highlight the text. Select Format -> Character... and select
Pair Kerning from the Position tab.  If the font is changed to a Type 1 font
such as Nimbus Roman or Bitstream Charter, the "o" will be neatly scooted unter
the T, and the A's and V's should close in on each other. If, however, a
TrueType font is selected, such as Times New Roman or one of the other MS core
web fonts, there is no kerning.

I've seen this behavior in the OpenOffice 2 package in Debian sid, as well as in
a fresh install of the rpm's from the OpenOffice web site on a Suse 10.0
installation (I removed the default Suse packages first). The issue doesn't seem
to appear in Windows XP.

This issue is a serious one to me because I enable pair kerning in all my
documents, and I wouldn't want to live without half the typefaces I use every day.

Thanks for your time, and thanks for creating a great piece of software.

Scott Thatcher
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2006-02-02 07:20:22 UTC 
Reassigned to ES.
Comment 2 thatchermo 2006-02-02 17:24:31 UTC 
I'll add one more piece of information: this seems to be a recent problem. The
OpenOffice package in Ubuntu breezy which identifies itself as version 1.9.129
has correct pair kerning for all fonts.

Scott Thatcher
Comment 3 lohmaier 2006-02-02 21:16:12 UTC 
duplicate.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 61023 ***
Comment 4 lohmaier 2006-02-02 21:16:29 UTC 
closing duplicate