[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 118221] Calc fails to render (default setting) kerning=off for cells with no character formatting (leads to bad type face and bad digit alignment) [Comment 23]

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118221

--- Comment #46 from Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> ---
(In reply to Khaled Hosny from comment #45)
> (In reply to OfficeUser from comment #44)
> > I have to revoke my words regarding "cell-formatting" in Comment 36. I think
> > this was nonsense.
> > Correct is that applying any simple formatting (for example bold) to a
> > single character helps to render kerning=off correctly. This behavior is in
> > accordance with Eike's Comment 23 because any character formatting forces
> > the EditEngine to be used instead of the OutputDevice.
> > 
> > 
> > Aron Budea: If the most left screenshot is from 5.2.0.4 I cannot reproduce
> > it. In 5.2.0.4 kerning is ALWAYS on and even cannot be turned off by
> > applying any character formatting. So the digits are always bad aligned. It
> > looks like Khaled's patch has improved the situation for newer builds so
> > that kerning=off works at least for EditEngine.
> > 
> > But we need an additional patch to handle kerning=off also vie OutputDevice.
> > 
> > (@Aron: Try to apply bold to any character, and you have good digit
> > alignment in recent builds.)
> 
> Not that EditEngine will eventually call OutputDevice, so the problem is not
> in oOutputDevice itself but in the Calc code that calls it directly. Namely
> it should set the kerning off on the font being used, per the settings,
> before processing the text with OutputDevice.

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