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title="NEW - 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]"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118221#c46">Comment # 46</a>
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title="NEW - 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]"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118221">bug 118221</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:khaledhosny@eglug.org" title="Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>"> <span class="fn">Khaled Hosny</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Khaled Hosny from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=118221#c45">comment #45</a>)
<span class="quote">> (In reply to OfficeUser from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=118221#c44">comment #44</a>)
> > I have to revoke my words regarding "cell-formatting" in <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=118221#c36">Comment 36</a>. 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 <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=118221#c23">Comment 23</a> 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.</span >
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