Bug 69281

Summary:	Condensing Characters Doesn't Reduce Horizontal Space for Line Wrapping
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	beholdsa
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	jbfaure
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.1.0.4 release
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	macOS (All)
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Attachments:	LibreOffice Writer file to demonstrate the bug. PDF of the attached writer file to show how it's rendering for me bugdoc exported to pdf under Linux

Description beholdsa 2013-09-12 18:00:24 UTC

To reproduce: Select a block of text in Writer and format the characters in the text so that they're more condensed. This should move the characters closer together, making them take up less horizontal space. Condense them enough and this should allow more words to for on a line. 

What happens, however, is that characters will condense, but even though it makes enough space for words in lines below it to move up, those words stay on the next line. No amount of condensing will cause more words to be fit into the line.

In pervious versions of LibreOffice this worked, and it's a common tactic for making headline fit into a single line in a column.

Comment 1 Dominique Boutry 2013-10-18 15:20:01 UTC

Not reproduced with LibO 4.1.2.3 on Win7. Condensing works fine.

A tentative explanation -don't blame me if I underestimate your proficiency in Lib0 ;-) could be the presence of hard-returns (Shiht+Enter).

Comment 2 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2013-11-16 17:14:30 UTC

Please, could you attach a sample document showing the problem and a screencopy of what you see on your screen ?

Best regards. JBF

Comment 3 beholdsa 2013-11-17 21:08:35 UTC

Created attachment 89374 [details]
LibreOffice Writer file to demonstrate the bug.

Comment 4 beholdsa 2013-11-17 21:09:16 UTC

Created attachment 89375 [details]
PDF of the attached writer file to show how it's rendering for me

Comment 5 beholdsa 2013-11-17 21:13:50 UTC

I have attached a sample document showing the bug, as well as an exported PDF of the document to capture how it's rendering for me when I open the document.

Note that this is happening for me on Mac OSX. I have yet to see if I can reproduce the bug under Windows or Linux.

P.S. As someone reporting the bug I don't know if it's appropriate for me to mark the bug as REOPENED, since I provided the requested info, so I'll leave its status as NEEDINFO for now. Hopefully someone who knows the etiquette better can decide what its status should be.

Comment 6 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2013-11-20 05:18:12 UTC

Created attachment 89508 [details]
bugdoc exported to pdf under Linux

Thank you very much for the data.
I do not reproduce the problem with LibreOffice 4.1.4.0.0+ under Ubuntu 13.10 x86-64. See the attached pdf file bug_Linux.pdf
We need another tester under MacOS. So, set status back to unconfirmed.

Best regards. JBF

Comment 7 retired 2013-11-21 10:27:53 UTC

OS X 10.9 LO Version: 4.2.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: d93433ba1181f5d8f6ded0ed0c103df10ebb1f22
TinderBox: MacOSX-x86@49-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2013-11-20_13:04:00

Confirming. When opening the test odt the "a" of the second line, second paragraph should move up to the first line.

Setting to NEW.

@beholdsa: FYI: after adding requested info and the bug being unconfirmed so far, re-set the bug to UNCONFIRMED after providing that info.

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Comment 9 beholdsa 2015-04-20 02:14:06 UTC

Tested. No longer an issue.

Comment 10 steve 2015-04-20 09:04:52 UTC

 thanks for your update

since we don't have a specific commit fixing this issue, this is actually WORKSFORME.