Issue 127032 - Vertical ruler not displayed correctly in OS/2 version
Summary: Vertical ruler not displayed correctly in OS/2 version
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 4.1.2
Hardware: PC OS/2
: P5 (lowest) Normal (vote)
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Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Reported: 2016-07-08 14:08 UTC by Thomas Hellsén
Modified: 2021-06-22 18:10 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
Latest Confirmation in: 4.1.8
Developer Difficulty: ---

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Displays the error. (17.27 KB, image/png)
2016-07-08 14:08 UTC, Thomas Hellsén 		no flags Details
AOO 4.1.3 with "Workplace Sans" font (24.39 KB, image/png)
2017-05-25 16:39 UTC, Matthias Seidel 		no flags Details
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Description Thomas Hellsén 2016-07-08 14:08:06 UTC 
Created attachment 85600 [details]
Displays the error.

The vertical ruler digits are displayed in such a way that they lose the second digit. See the attached PNG image, where the vertical ruler shows "6 7 8 9 1 1 1 1 1 1" and the second digit has been lost. This seems to affect the OS/2 version but not the MS Windows version.
Comment 1 Matthias Seidel 2017-05-25 16:38:54 UTC 
(In reply to Thomas Hellsén from comment #0)
> Created attachment 85600 [details]
> Displays the error.
> 
> The vertical ruler digits are displayed in such a way that they lose the
> second digit. See the attached PNG image, where the vertical ruler shows "6
> 7 8 9 1 1 1 1 1 1" and the second digit has been lost. This seems to affect
> the OS/2 version but not the MS Windows version.

That is a problem of the installed system-font "WarpSans", which is a bitmapped font and can not be rotated (if I remember it correctly).

Under "Tools - Options... - View" you can disable "Use system font for user interface". Now if you have "Workplace Sans" installed [1] it will be used for the user interface instead.

The font looks really nice in general and the numbers in the vertical ruler are rotated (like on other platforms). Drawback: The menu bar is bold/italic.

I can confirm it on ArcaOS 5.0 [2] so I miǵht open a bug on their bugtracker.

[1] http://www.altsan.org/creative/fonts/workplace/wpsu_bit_103.zip
[2] https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/
Comment 2 Matthias Seidel 2017-05-25 16:39:59 UTC 
Created attachment 86112 [details]
AOO 4.1.3 with "Workplace Sans" font
Comment 3 Matthias Seidel 2019-02-11 23:45:33 UTC 
Confirmed with AOO 4.1.6 on ArcaOS
Comment 4 Peter 2019-09-02 19:08:05 UTC 
Matthias have you opened a bug in arcaos?
Comment 5 Matthias Seidel 2019-09-02 19:19:55 UTC 
(In reply to Peter from comment #4)
> Matthias have you opened a bug in arcaos?

No, I didn't...

Thinking about it, this isn't a problem of the font handling by the OS.

I added Yuri, maybe he has an idea how to improve the menus when using a scalable font for the UI.
Comment 6 Matthias Seidel 2021-06-22 18:08:11 UTC 
(In reply to Thomas Hellsén from comment #0)
> Created attachment 85600 [details]
> Displays the error.
> 
> The vertical ruler digits are displayed in such a way that they lose the
> second digit. See the attached PNG image, where the vertical ruler shows "6
> 7 8 9 1 1 1 1 1 1" and the second digit has been lost. This seems to affect
> the OS/2 version but not the MS Windows version.

As a sidenote:

The official binary for Windows shows the same issue.
Comment 7 Matthias Seidel 2021-06-22 18:10:47 UTC 
The last comment was not complete!

...when installed on ReacOS.

https://reactos.org/