Created attachment 119747 [details] comparison English and German UI In German UI the dialog-box for "Export as PDF" is much bigger than in Englisch UI and there is many white space. Tested in 5.0.2.2 WIN10 32bit and 5.1.0.0.alpha1+ Build-ID: 2511a21841dd9dec735a53add8174e47d24deb88 TinderBox: Win-x86@62-merge-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2015-10-13_23:26:46 The same "problem" with Russian and Japanese UI but not with Arabic UI (tested with 5.1.0alpha). For more information about the discussion (in German): http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/de/discuss/msg18978.html
Thorsten draws an work around by making the dialog-box resizable: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/de/discuss/msg18985.html
Would this make it a regression then.
Don’t be misled into thinking that making the dialog resizable will fix this bug, because it’s the *minimal size* in which is generated (i.e., you can’t resize it smaller, only bigger). The dialog also appears too big in Spanish, by the way, because the strings are longer.
Created attachment 120036 [details] Quick-and-dirty patch The attached patch mitigates the excessive blank space problem by removing the “homogeneous” property from the grids. Unfortunately, this makes the options seem misaligned when you switch tabs in the PDF Options dialog.
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=5f3baf45723a11987c0a0ddaa1ca1cebafcccde3 tdf#95178 Homogeneous columns are a huge waste of space 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.
I dunno why I didn’t push that patch back then, shame on me
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=2aa1c7d95ee35c39498ca8a62e8cd7f50941c07b&h=libreoffice-5-4 tdf#95178 Homogeneous columns are a huge waste of space It will be available in 5.4.2. 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.