Bug 1533949

Summary: Characters blurry in LibreOffice on HiDPI Wayland and fractional scaling
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan Vlug <jan.public>
Component: libreofficeAssignee: Caolan McNamara <caolanm>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 28CC: caolanm, dtardon, erack, pasik, sbergman
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Unsharp character rendering in LibreOffice writer example
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Description Jan Vlug 2018-01-12 15:51:29 UTC
Created attachment 1380453 [details]
Screenshot that shows the problem

Characters are not sharp when not selected in Libreoffice calc cells. See the screenshot.
I'm using a HiDPI display, Waland and fractional scaling of 150%.
After moving the window to the LoDPI display and than back to the HiDPI display there is no difference any more in selected and non-selected cells. But the characters are not optimally sharp.

Comment 1 Jan Vlug 2018-06-10 09:27:36 UTC
Created attachment 1449633 [details]
Unsharp character rendering in LibreOffice writer example

The attached screenshot shows a text in LibreOffice, and the same text in Evince after exporting the document with LibreOffice. Note the difference in sharpness in the rendering of the characters.

Comment 2 Caolan McNamara 2018-06-11 09:55:08 UTC
Its still the case that fractional scaling isn't available in Fedora through the normal user UI settings though ?

Comment 3 Jan Vlug 2018-06-23 08:35:18 UTC
When fractional scaling is disabled (i.e. set to 100% via Gnome UI settings), the text in LibreOffice Writer is sharp. See screenshot.

Comment 4 Jan Vlug 2018-06-23 08:36:15 UTC
Created attachment 1453911 [details]
Screenshot with 100% scaling: sharp fonts in Writer.

Comment 5 Caolan McNamara 2018-07-29 20:24:46 UTC
Maybe I need to additionally listen for notify::scale-factor

Comment 6 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 19:19:17 UTC
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Comment 7 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 19:46:57 UTC
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Comment 8 Ben Cotton 2019-05-28 23:47:39 UTC
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