Bug 107395 - letters are shown incompletely and underlining is too high using 'MetaNormalLF-Roman'
Summary: letters are shown incompletely and underlining is too high using 'MetaNormalL...
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.3.1.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
: medium minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2017-04-24 17:07 UTC by a.degirmenci
Modified: 2017-12-04 12:39 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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incomplete letters in writer (16.75 KB, image/jpeg)
2017-04-24 17:31 UTC, a.degirmenci
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after export or saving, wrong underlining (20.70 KB, image/jpeg)
2017-04-24 17:33 UTC, a.degirmenci
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incomplete letters in calc (20.80 KB, image/jpeg)
2017-04-24 17:34 UTC, a.degirmenci
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export to pdf (4.28 KB, application/pdf)
2017-04-24 17:35 UTC, a.degirmenci
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how it could look (OpenOffice) (26.28 KB, image/jpeg)
2017-04-24 17:36 UTC, a.degirmenci
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font metrics (Type light 3.2) (25.92 KB, image/png)
2017-04-25 04:34 UTC, V Stuart Foote
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Description a.degirmenci 2017-04-24 17:07:47 UTC
Description:
Using the font 'MetaNormalLF-Roman' just the upper part of the letters is shown (about upper two thirds), unterlining is placed too high but everything worked fine with LibreOffice 4. In Calc the letters are shown incomplete in the table but completely in the input line.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.write with 'MetaNormalLF-Roman'
2.change size of letters many times, underline, mark text
3.export to pdf

Actual Results:  
The letters are shown incompletely (just upper two thirds are shown), after changing the size many times the letters are shown normally but if the text is underlined the line is placed too high, with marking the text just the upper two thirds are marked.
If documents with incomplete ore complete letters are exported to PDF letters in the export are always complete. After exporting a text with incompletely shown letters to PDF the letters in the ODT are shown completely but underlining ist still too high and marking just marks the upper two thirds.

Expected Results:
Writing with 'MetaNormalLF-Roman' shouldnt produce incompletely shown letters or high underlining as it ist displayed and underlined right in OpenOffice (latest version), MS Office 2010 and LibreOffice 4.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No (but it happens on various PCs with various UserProfiles)

Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Comment 1 a.degirmenci 2017-04-24 17:31:54 UTC
Created attachment 132793 [details]
incomplete letters in writer
Comment 2 a.degirmenci 2017-04-24 17:33:35 UTC
Created attachment 132794 [details]
after export or saving, wrong underlining
Comment 3 a.degirmenci 2017-04-24 17:34:14 UTC
Created attachment 132795 [details]
incomplete letters in calc
Comment 4 a.degirmenci 2017-04-24 17:35:12 UTC
Created attachment 132796 [details]
export to pdf
Comment 5 a.degirmenci 2017-04-24 17:36:23 UTC
Created attachment 132797 [details]
how it could look (OpenOffice)
Comment 6 V Stuart Foote 2017-04-25 04:34:19 UTC
Created attachment 132810 [details]
font metrics (Type light 3.2)

Can not reproduce.

On Windows 10 Pro 64-bit en-US with
Version: 5.3.2.2 (x64)
Build ID: 6cd4f1ef626f15116896b1d8e1398b56da0d0ee1
CPU Threads: 8; OS Version: Windows 6.19; UI Render: default; Layout Engine: new; 
Locale: en-US (en_US); Calc: group

I located a source for the MetaNormalLF-Roman font (ver 4.301 2007-06-18 as OTF) and reviewed its font metrics. The WinAscent/WinDescent hhea Ascender/Descender and Typo Ascender/Descender as well as the underline position values seem reasonable, and on use in Writer and Calc see no issue with vertical positioning of the font or of the underline.

Perhaps verify the font metrics have not been corrupted.

=-ref-=
http://fonts3.com/fonts/m/MetaNormalLF-Roman.html
Comment 7 Buovjaga 2017-04-29 06:43:34 UTC
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #6)
> Perhaps verify the font metrics have not been corrupted.

Stuart: any tips on how the reporter would do this verification?
Setting to NEEDINFO in any case.
Comment 8 V Stuart Foote 2017-04-29 13:16:04 UTC
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #7)
> (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #6)
> > Perhaps verify the font metrics have not been corrupted.
> 
> Stuart: any tips on how the reporter would do this verification?
> Setting to NEEDINFO in any case.

Any font editing program will do. Type 3.2/Type light, FontForge, FontCreator all have display/edit panel for reviewing/adjusting the font metrics.
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2017-10-30 10:54:40 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2017-12-04 12:39:39 UTC
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