Bug 158016 - Severely reduced kerning/letter spacing with some text boxes
Summary: Severely reduced kerning/letter spacing with some text boxes
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.4.7.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2023-10-31 20:49 UTC by bbilocura
Modified: 2023-11-14 08:34 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
PowerPoint file with affected text boxes (42.75 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation)
2023-10-31 20:49 UTC, bbilocura
Details
Screenshot of issue (35.21 KB, image/png)
2023-10-31 20:50 UTC, bbilocura
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Screenshot (40.32 KB, image/png)
2023-10-31 22:07 UTC, m_a_riosv
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MX Linux Safe Mode (70.14 KB, image/png)
2023-11-02 17:14 UTC, bbilocura
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Description bbilocura 2023-10-31 20:49:57 UTC
Created attachment 190572 [details]
PowerPoint file with affected text boxes

Some PowerPoint files have text boxes with severely reduced kerning/letter spacing, making the text in those boxes unreadable. This happens even when the presentation machine has the correct fonts for the presentation.
Comment 1 bbilocura 2023-10-31 20:50:18 UTC
Created attachment 190573 [details]
Screenshot of issue
Comment 2 m_a_riosv 2023-10-31 22:07:12 UTC
I can't reproduce with
Version: 7.6.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: f5defcebd022c5bc36bbb79be232cb6926d8f674
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22621; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded

Do you have the font installed?
Comment 3 m_a_riosv 2023-10-31 22:07:35 UTC
Created attachment 190576 [details]
Screenshot
Comment 4 Rafael Lima 2023-10-31 23:15:21 UTC
I have the Calibri font installed, and the file opened fine for me.

Tested with

Version: 7.6.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: f5defcebd022c5bc36bbb79be232cb6926d8f674
CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.2; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+wayland)
Locale: pt-BR (pt_BR.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 5 bbilocura 2023-11-02 16:05:36 UTC
More details. Appreciate guidance on next steps, even if it is to reach out to another dev group. (qfont???)

--- The issue occurs in: ---
MX Linux 23.1 KDE Edition
Calibri font installed: Yes
Version: 7.4.7.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 40(Build:2)
CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: qt5 (qfont+wayland)
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Debian package version: 4:7.4.7-1
Calc: threaded


--- The issue does not occur in: ---
Fedora 38 KDE Spin
Calibri font installed: Yes
Version: 7.5.7.1 (X86_64)
Build ID: 50(Build:1)
CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+wayland)
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

PopOS 22.04 LTS Live USB
Calibri font installed: No
Version: 7.3.7.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 30(Build:2)
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.2; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (C.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Ubuntu package version: 1:7.3.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.3
Calc: threaded

EndeavourOS Sway edition
Version: 7.6.2.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 60(Build:1)
CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
7.6.2-3
Calc: threaded
Comment 6 m_a_riosv 2023-11-02 16:58:27 UTC
Please test in safe mode, Menu/Help/Restart in Safe Mode, where it fails.
Comment 7 bbilocura 2023-11-02 17:14:26 UTC
Created attachment 190624 [details]
MX Linux Safe Mode

Attached screenshot is in Safe Mode, MX Linux system as described in previous comment.
Comment 8 Buovjaga 2023-11-13 17:22:19 UTC
bbilocura: try running LibreOffice with

SAL_VCL_QT5_USE_CAIRO=1 libreoffice

Does it help?

You could tell MX Linux packagers that they should not package the qt5 UI as it is not supposed to be used in production yet. See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lubuntu-meta/+bug/1895216
Comment 9 bbilocura 2023-11-13 18:51:34 UTC
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #8)
> SAL_VCL_QT5_USE_CAIRO=1 libreoffice
> Does it help?

Yes, running libreoffice as you instructed resolves the issue. Thank you for the workaround. I will pass the message along to MX Linux and reference this thread.
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2023-11-14 03:12:10 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)