Steps: 1. Open attachment 134821 [details] 2. Notice that their there is no space between first drop caps 'L' and the 'I' and the text next to it 3. Compare this with MS Word and notice that there is space. Version: 6.0.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 888f3f18cf42ca08f55a5e4826b4298f391e14aa CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 4.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group Checking the XML and LO isnt importing the w:hSpace attribute from the <w:framePr> tag. e.g. <w:framePr w:dropCap="drop" w:lines="2" w:hSpace="720" w:wrap="around" w:vAnchor="text" w:hAnchor="text" />
how it looks in Word - attachment 134825 [details]
Hi Yousuf, I reproduce with LO 6.0.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 643da8ec4e721d33dfdf8d78bedd50a915f1188d CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 6.1; UI render: default; TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2017-06-26_01:24:22 Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR); Calc: CL and LO 3.5.3.2 Version ID : 235ab8a-3802056-4a8fed3-2d66ea8-e241b80 so probably inherited from OOo In Word, distance to text is 1.27 cm for the first L drop cap and 0.51 cm set for the I drop cap.
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=73e7619d903d5fc79ea339ab2c5b4c1ef3cf326e tdf#109319 writerfilter: set DropCap.Distance It will be available in 6.0.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.