Description: I have a custom made font. Among some characters there's a heavy use of kerning (by "heavy" I mean that in certain pairs the characters should totally overlap each other). My latest Writer version was 5.2.6.2, and everything was fine. Recently I installed version 5.3.2.2 just to find out, that my test document displays *very* differently to what I was expecting. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a new document 2. Change font to DominionSymbols 3. Enter characters -% (minus percent) Now you can see that the characters overlap, creating a banner-like border under a logo 4. Select first character (Home, then Shift+right arrow) 5. Change the character color to red Now the characters do not overlap anymore - the banner is to the left, and the logo is next to it 6. Change the second character color to red Now the characters overlap again. HOWEVER, after step 5 (one character black and one character red) select both characters, and display the Format dialog for them (Format -> Character) - the dialog preview window shows both characters with proper kerning. Actual Results: Kerning is lost when characters have different colors. Expected Results: Kerning should be applied despite different character colors. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36
Created attachment 132556 [details] Test document open in LO Writer 5.2.6.2 This is the expected result.
Created attachment 132557 [details] Test document open in LO Writer 5.3.2.2 This is the UNexpected result.
Created attachment 132558 [details] Font and test document for the bug.
Created attachment 132559 [details] What you see after step 3
Created attachment 132560 [details] What you see after step 5 when you display character format dialog
Created attachment 132648 [details] The bug affects the Calc as well The bug affects not only the Writer, but also the Calc and the Draw. 1. Start LO Calc 2. Change font to Times New Roman 3. Set size to 256 (for better display) 4. Type letters WA 5. Select either of the letters and change its Language parameter (in the Format->Character dialog) The kerning is now gone.
Confirmed with document and font. Khaled: what might be going on?
AFAIK, this has always been broken, see bug 61444. I didn’t even know it worked on Windows.
Ok, sorry, I assumed it was due to the changes in 5.3.. closing. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 61444 ***
Well, I do not want to be rude, but this is kinda strange to me. Apparently it WORKED in LO 5.2 and got BROKEN in LO 5.3, and you are saying that it is an old bug (like from 4 year ago)? I'm even sure it worked as expected in 2013 (at least in Windows) - whichever LO release was at that time - because I have a screenshot of my test document dated June 19, 2013 and everything is okay (that means the kerning is applied between characters of different colors). You may have a look at it - https://boardgamegeek.com/image/1697334/m-knox?size=original
No, he said he didn't know it worked on Windows. Now that we have unified text rendering across platforms, we have unifiedly broken kerning.