https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103134
Bug ID: 103134
Summary: Inconsistent character spacing across different fonts,
suite versions and operating systems.
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.2.2.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 127953
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Tested on;
Operating systems:
Ubuntu 16.04LTS, Ubuntu 16.10, Fedora 24, Ubuntu Gnome 16.04, Arch XFCE,
Xubuntu 16.04, Windows 10, Windows 8.1
Libre Office versions:
5.0, 5.1, 5.2
Monitors:
1920x1080 Dell 24", 1280x1024 Dell 17"
Fonts:
Most common fonts (too many to list)
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Bug:
Libre Office writer spaces out individual characters in an inconsistent manner.
Some characters have unusually large gaps between them, some are overlapping.
Often the same word will look different in the same document which seems to
suggest a rendering issue rather than a font issue. I've tested this on
multiple operating systems, multiple monitors and multiple office versions and
I can't seem to eliminate the bug. The issue often disappears once the zoom
level is above 140% and the characters are sufficiently large. Also, this
effect is not visible when printing the document on paper. Which again seems to
suggest the problem is due to bad displaying/rendering.
In some instances disabling pair kerning for characters improves spacing but
not always and never fixes the problem completely.
I've never experienced anything similar in any other office suite (MS office,
WPS office, Gnome office etc...) I haven't tested Open Office extensively but
from my limited testing the spacing was handled somewhat better than in Libre
Office.
Also, I haven't used other Libre Office apps as much (calc, impress etc..). But
checking just now (5.2.2) calc doesn't seem to have this problem, while impress
does to some extent since I can see the characters shifting when I type with
font size 13 and below regardless of the font.
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