Issue 9464 - PDF exports text with incorrect alignment
Summary: PDF exports text with incorrect alignment
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: 643
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: mci
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Depends on: 9060
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Reported: 2002-11-23 07:46 UTC by bigserpent
Modified: 2003-09-08 16:56 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description bigserpent 2002-11-23 07:46:59 UTC 
Text exported to PDF has left justification while origin is aligned justified.

Another issue is - if a table has empty rows (blank), the columns are aligned
left and the display mode is to show non printable characters, these CR symbols
in empty cells are written to PDF and visible. If colunm is aligned centered, a
CR symbol is not printed to PDF despite of visible CRs in a original text.
Comment 1 Unknown 2002-12-02 04:17:05 UTC 
Alexander Rabtchevich submitted 2 issues in this issue.

For his 1st issue I want to add the following details:

This appears to me as linked to Issue#: 9060. By changing the printer 
settings for Graphics rendering -DPI 150,300,600- the character 
spacing will change. A direct consequence is that the justified text 
will be un-justified on the right but still justifified on the left. 
Sometimes the text can can even go outside of the legal limit of the 
page within OOo. Im not sure which driver does the trouble. It's NOT 
limited to the PDF driver as I have experienced this issue with other 
computers without any PDF drivers and just normal HP printer drivers. 
It is not easy to reproduce it, so here are the steps to make it. Try 
with the legacy Abode PDF driver or any HP driver under OOo 101 or 
even Build 643c with the new embedded PDF driver, Win32:

1. Open a new Writer doc. Write 5 lines of justified text on left AND 
right, Time new roman, size 12. This has to be be real words and real 
sentences, and the lines have to be different because you want to see 
the differences from one line relatively to the others.

2. Go in File > Printer setting. Select any printer, change the DPI 
in graphics option. Confirm. You don't need to print. Go back in OOo 
and refresh the screen, for example by adding a new page, going on 
this new page then coming back to the page wih the 5 test lines. You 
won't see the problem if you don't refresh the Writer's screen. 
Observe the end of each line. If you dont see a misalignment, then 
try this step (2) again for another DPI value.

Alernatively you can really print instead of just refreshing the 
screen

This does NOT behave the same if you change the DPI from 150 to 300 
or 300 to 600 etc ... so becarfull it may takes time before you can 
reproduce it. Sometimes the character spacing can be very minor, 
almost invisible, and sometimes it can be 3 cm of difference gainst 
the normal text.
Comment 2 Unknown 2002-12-03 07:36:09 UTC 
I tryed under 643c. By simpling printing w/ the embedded PDF driver I 
can see another justification problem as well as Alexander said... 
but I m not sure if this one is related to the DPI setting in this 
case. pfiouu !
Comment 3 bigserpent 2003-04-01 10:03:19 UTC 
Both issues with incorrect text aligntment and CR symbol displaying
are gone in 1.1 Beta for Windows (at least I couldn't see them more).
Comment 4 mci 2003-08-12 14:05:39 UTC 
mci: reassigned to mci@openoffice.org
     set status to new
Comment 5 mci 2003-08-12 14:07:11 UTC 
mci: closed because reporter reported that Bug has gone...
Comment 6 mci 2003-08-12 14:07:32 UTC 
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