Sorry, misspelt uwog email address On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Martin Sevior <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a known bug. Marc Maurer was working on a complete fix for the > problem. > > Cheers > > Martin > > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:08 AM, gpk <[email protected]> wrote: >> Whoops, here's the image. >> >> ** Attachment added: "bug.png" >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/672263/+attachment/1726105/+files/bug.png >> >> -- >> Letters in and near selection move by +-1 pixel >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/672263 >> You received this bug notification because you are a member of AbiWord >> Stable Builds, which is subscribed to abiword in ubuntu. >> >> Status in “abiword” package in Ubuntu: New >> >> Bug description: >> Binary package hint: abiword >> >> If you select text on abiword with the left mouse button held down, >> and you sweep the mouse to the right, you can see the letters near >> the mouse pointer shimmer. They move by + or - 1 pixel as the mouse >> pointer approaches them, and also as the mouse pointer passes them. >> >> Somewhere, in the code that displays a selection, there is a fencepost >> error. (Or, perhaps it's a fencepost error in the code that displays the >> non-selected text?) >> >> I have attached an image made from four screen captures as I selected >> part of a word. The top is the reference, with no selection. >> The next three select larger areas. All four images are aligned on the >> left edge of the document. >> >> I added two pink vertical bars for reference, and you can see that the >> "r" is one pixel further leftwards in the bottom two images. You can also >> see that the "v" is one pixel rightwards in the second image. >> >> Not every letter moves equally, it seems. Perhaps it's a rounding error >> for characters that are a non-integral number of pixels wide? >> >> The font used was Times New Roman, 12 point. >> >> ProblemType: Bug >> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 >> Package: abiword 2.8.6-0ubuntu1 >> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.37-generic 2.6.35.7 >> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64 >> Architecture: amd64 >> Date: Sun Nov 7 19:58:36 2010 >> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/abiword >> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 >> (20100816.1) >> ProcEnviron: >> SHELL=/bin/bash >> PATH=(custom, user) >> LANG=en_GB.utf8 >> SourcePackage: abiword >> XsessionErrors: >> (gnome-settings-daemon:3090): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: >> gdk_pixbuf_format_get_name: assertion `format != NULL' failed >> (gnome-settings-daemon:3090): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: >> gdk_pixbuf_format_get_name: assertion `format != NULL' failed >> (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3107): GLib-CRITICAL **: >> g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed >> (nautilus:3108): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != >> NULL' failed >> >> >> >
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