Bug 133566 - Broken kerning with Qt5 backend
Summary: Broken kerning with Qt5 backend
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.4.3.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2020-05-31 19:52 UTC by Hadmut Danisch
Modified: 2021-05-10 03:58 UTC (History)
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Example of one slide with vertical and one with horizontal displacement (11.97 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation)
2020-05-31 19:52 UTC, Hadmut Danisch
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Description Hadmut Danisch 2020-05-31 19:52:10 UTC
Created attachment 161474 [details]
Example of one slide with vertical and one with horizontal displacement

Hi,

I have some impress presentations, that were working well with libreoffice under Ubuntu 18.04 (with ubuntu package, with AppImage and with snap). 

After upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 some (but not all) slides (see example file attached) became unreadable because horizontal or vertical kerning / positioning is broken and characters get printed too close and over it's left or upper neighbor. 

The bug exists with
- original ubuntu packages (6.4.3)
- original libreoffice 6.4.1 AppImage (same appimage working well on 18.04, but not on 20.04)


But it does not occur on the snap version 6.4.3.2. That is working well, but has not access to all fonts installed on the system (maybe that's what on the other hand prevents the problem). 


Although I do consider this rather as an Ubuntu problem, I think you should know about it.
Comment 1 Hadmut Danisch 2020-06-03 15:52:41 UTC
I made some progress in debugging. 

Under Lubuntu 20.04 the environment comes with the variable 

SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=qt5

set. When unsetting it, the bug does not occur.
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2020-10-10 15:45:34 UTC
Plain Qt5 without Cairo rendering is not yet mature, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lubuntu-meta/+bug/1895216

Maybe try with a master build of 7.1 as there were some fixes recently.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2021-04-09 03:47:44 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2021-05-10 03:58:12 UTC
Dear Hadmut Danisch,

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