Outline Style Font Quality for PDF Export

OpenOffice.org 2.0

Document - ID	Specification Owner	Last Change	Status
	Hasan Ilter	11/04/03	draft
Conforms to	
Applies to	Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw
Task ID(s)	112679
Category	feature

Abstract

Fonts can be styled as outline. If these text is exported to PDF the visual appearance is the same as on screen and paper.

i-Team Members

	Name	E-mail Address
User Experience	Matthias Müller-Prove /MMP	mprove@sun.com
Development	Philip Lohmann /PL	philip.lohmann@sun.com
Quality Assurance	Hasan Ilter /HI	hasan.ilter@sun.com
Documentation	Frank Peters /FPE	fpe@sun.com
		mail to iTeam

Approved for Implementation

	Approved by	Date
User Experience	<Name>	<Date>
Development		
Quality Assurance		
Documentation		
String Review		

Document Change History

Rev. Level	Change	Initials	Date
draft	initial draft	MMP+HI	11/04/03

Contents

Glossary	1

1	Motivation	1

2	User Scenarios	1

3	Goals	1

4	Requirements and Dependencies	1

4.1	Requirements	1

4.2	Technical Dependencies	1

5	Competitive Analyses	1

6	Detailed Specification	1

7	Future Tasks	2

8	Notes	2

9	References	2

Glossary

Term	Description
<Term 1>	

Motivation

The visual appearance of text in exported PDF documents does not meet the expectations of the user.

User Scenarios

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Goals

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Requirements and Dependencies

Requirements

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Technical Dependencies

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Competitive Analyses

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Detailed Specification

If text is styled as outline then the thickness of the out-lines is a constant value -- independent form the font height. For OOo 2.0 the with is a hairline of 1µ. ##cf. MMP-1

<String Lists>

<Dialogs providing strings which have to be translated, have to be accompanied by a table containing the strings used in the image (English or German or both) Strings have to include mnemonics and the item for which the string is used. Mnemonics have to be visualized by a ~ - symbol in front of the letter which has to be displayed mnemonic.>

String list

Item	English	German	Comments

Future Tasks

n/a

Notes

MMP-1 Issue ad chapter 6 /high: Please contact engineering for an optimal with of the outline.

MMP-2 Issue /medium: Is there a reason why Writer and Calc call the style “outline”, while Impress and Draw call it “contour”? I suggest to use “outline” for all applications.

References

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Outline Style Font Quality for PDF Export

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Matthias Müller-Prove

2003-11-04T13:50:36