PDF Export: ToC dots broken

[Pascal de Bruijn]

When exporting documents with automatically generated PDFs, the automatically generated dots are broken a little bit.

Some dots are just skipped, which leaves a whitespace seemingly random.

[Pascal de Bruijn (pmjdebruijn)]

This is the exported PDF which shows a broken ToC.

[Pascal de Bruijn (pmjdebruijn)]

This also seems to affect Type1 fonts!

[Pascal de Bruijn (pmjdebruijn)]

I don't want to be overly dramatic about this, but such a bug kind of ruins the entire PDF export feature altogether...

[Loe Spee (lgespee)]

I can confirm this bug, it's bin there I think since Edgy Eft.
It's not a real show stopper, but handing in a paper or an official document which doesn't even have the dots in the table of content rendered correctly will have an unprofessional look over it before anyone ever reads it.

[Dan Munckton (munckfish)]

Ok I have a possibly related issue. Instead of missing sections I have crunched up dots some of which overlap the page number at the end of the line. See attached screen shot.

I vote to raise priority on this as OOo and PDF export are key tools that effect professional use of Ubuntu.

[Loe Spee (lgespee)]

Munckfish, that is not possibly related, that IS the issue ;).
Your screenshot exactly depicts what I experience. You are right by saying it's a key tool for professional use of Ubuntu.

[Dan Munckton (munckfish)]

Did a bit of digging in the openoffice bug tracker and found this

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=74609

Reported in OOo 2.1 and fixed but seems we have the same problem right now in Ubuntu's 2.2.

[Loe Spee (lgespee)]

I see, although that bug says it occurs with Times New Roman, I think it also occurs with other fonts.
But still it's a real pitty nobody looked into this, it makes me use OOo (and older version) on Windows cause that one doesn't have the problems.

[Dan Munckton (munckfish)]

Ok I think #90868 may be a more general version of this bug. As this kerning issue is affecting other parts of documents as well as the TOC. Don't worry Loe - I'm sure it'll be fixed soon.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I believe that this bug has been corrected in Ubuntu hardy openoffice.org 1:2.4.0~rc2-1ubuntu3 so I am marking it as Fix Released. If after upgrading you continue to have problems with this issue then feel free to reopen this bug.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney