Bug 118336 - Wrong statement about Fontwork
Summary: Wrong statement about Fontwork
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.4 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
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Assignee: Not Assigned
URL: https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/F...
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Blocks: Help-Changes-Features
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Reported: 2018-06-23 21:49 UTC by Regina Henschel
Modified: 2024-03-02 15:18 UTC (History)
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Dialog for old fontwork (79.91 KB, image/png)
2018-06-23 23:02 UTC, Olivier Hallot
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Dialog for legacy "Fontwork" (32.22 KB, image/png)
2021-10-13 20:18 UTC, Regina Henschel
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Description Regina Henschel 2018-06-23 21:49:20 UTC
In https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Fontwork_1 is the text
<quote>
This Fontwork dialog is only available for Fontwork in old Writer text documents that were created prior to OpenOffice.org 2.0.
</quote>

That is wrong. The Fontwork was always available and is still available. It is the tool, which you need to get text along a path. It is mainly used to label connectors.

<quote>
You must first call Tools - Customize to add a menu command or an icon to open this dialog.
</quote>
That is right, but not helpful because a search for `Fontwork` has three results. You need to mention, that the command is in the category "Format".

<quote>
The top row contains the following baseline shapes: Upper Semicircle, Lower Semicircle, Left Semicircle and Right Semicircle.

The middle row contains the following baseline shapes: Upper Arc, Lower Arc, Left Arc and Right Arc.

The bottom row contains the following baseline shapes: Open Circle, Closed Circle, Closed Circle II, and Open Circle Vertical. For the best results, the drawing object must contain more than two lines of text.
</quote>

That part of the dialog has long time been removed. The corresponding attributes which are used before ODF, are no longer written.
Comment 1 Olivier Hallot 2018-06-23 23:02:34 UTC
Created attachment 143060 [details]
Dialog for old fontwork
Comment 2 Justin L 2020-02-07 05:29:10 UTC
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #0)
> a search for `Fontwork` has three results.
Commit 87a8b2c0d1002bff4f6268ac8673dd32fc7762b9 might help a bit with this. It fixes the tooltips, and thus consistently treats "Fontwork" (which we want in this context) as just Fontwork.
Comment 3 Regina Henschel 2021-10-13 20:18:17 UTC
Created attachment 175722 [details]
Dialog for legacy "Fontwork"

(In reply to Olivier Hallot from comment #1)
> Created attachment 143060 [details]
> Dialog for old fontwork

Your screenshot shows the wrong object. The legacy Fontwork, which this issue is about, is applicable to Polygons and BezierCurves.
Comment 4 Olivier Hallot 2024-03-02 15:18:36 UTC
Fixed in https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/help/+/81961