https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=5266
--- Comment #42 from Matthew Slyman <opensou...@slyman.org> --- Thank you, although, with all due respect, I followed a similar procedure for inserting the equation last time, and Draw gave me a formula window much smaller than the size of my formula — as originally explained, the formula was clipped at about 10% of the width of the formula, clipping off 90% of the formula — and the green handles stubbornly refused to move! I also encountered the other problems I have described. The box simply remained at its default size, except when I converted the formula to a curve, when the box suddenly shrank vertically, causing vertical clipping as well as horizontal clipping. (Naturally, as is often the case when an expert gets involved; after you advised me, the problem disappeared — although I do know that the problem is there, and has not been fully resolved, because I have not updated my software in the mean-time.) So with all due respect to you, I believe there is an intermittent fault in the code that is supposed to automatically resize the box with the green handles, according to the size of the contained formula. This intermittent fault is clearly causing significant (very irritating) problems for a small minority of users, in a minority of occasions. ALSO: I have now followed your recommendations completely, and the result was: a blank formula displayed in Chrome/ Inkscape (they couldn't display the SVG that Draw exported directly from the formula: it had to be converted into a path/ contour/ curve first, to work around this issue. Only then did it produce output that was visible in my other software. I believe this is probably an issue with management of fonts in Windows — most non-technical users wouldn't guess this, but then, most non-technical users probably wouldn't try this procedure either. I've used a variety of vector drawing programs, on a variety of platforms, over several decades; and the fact that I'm finding this aspect of Draw (which is generally quite good software) to be counter-intuitive (and had to read various online help forums before coming here), is probably a sign that ideally, this feature set should be improved. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the issue. You are on the CC list for the issue.
