<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Thorsten Behrens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thb@documentfoundation.org" target="_blank">thb@documentfoundation.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Michael Meeks wrote:<br>
> I'm no expert on the current state here, but my feeling is that there<br>
> are a lot of document / chart layout issues that are a real problem to<br>
> regression test.<br>
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</span>Curious to hear Moggi's input on that one - what I recall, was that<br>
Chart layout is just too randomly unstable to make that work?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>At least in my opinion it is. Fonts are surely one problem but not the only one. The whole layouting in chart is based on dynamic layouting instead of manual layouting. So I have never been able to get it stable across more than my machines and gandalf. I suppose you can increase the number of systems that support it if you really know what you are doing. However that requires a lot of changes to how chart calculates its layout.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Or is that something where there is a plan how to fix that, just no<br>
cycles/motivation to do so?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The layout tests work, just on a limited subset of machines. I looked into the failures when I implemented the layout tests. They are a combination of font issues, rounding errors, ...<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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And tangentially - for anything doing layout checks, I'd of course<br>
much prefer something that compares xml layout dumps, rather than<br>
bitmaps. ;)<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Of course the current chart layout tests use the XShape xml dump. Actually I wrote the first version of the layout dump for chart and just reused it later for impress and draw ;)<br><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div>Markus <br></div></div></div></div>