LibreOffice Writer does not space characters correctly

[buchs]

I've thought from the early days of Open Office, that Writer could be improved in the rendering of fonts, specifically in the character spacing. I have a screen shot of some text that illustrates the problem. I have underlined the word "Trust". It can be seen that the "r" is too close to the "u" and too far from the "t". It looks fine when it prints. Note the zoom is 100% and the font is Times New Roman 12. I have done nothing to configure kerning or change the character spacing. The problem persists even if I zoom in to 600%.

Note, I was thinking that I was reporting the bug to LibreOffice developers when I picked the menu option from Writer to "Report a Problem". I see this is going into Ubuntu. I hope that it gets to the LO folks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: libreoffice-core 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jun 25 22:14:22 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[penalvch (penalvch)]

buchs, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. The way LibreOffice Writer displays the screenshot is exactly the way Word displays it, keeping compatibility expectations with it. Hence, this is not a bug. Feel free to continue to report any future bugs you may find.