Public bug reported: Binary package hint: abiword
If you select text on abiword with the left mouse button held down, and you sweep the mouse to the right, you can see the letters near the mouse pointer shimmer. They move by + or - 1 pixel as the mouse pointer approaches them, and also as the mouse pointer passes them. Somewhere, in the code that displays a selection, there is a fencepost error. (Or, perhaps it's a fencepost error in the code that displays the non-selected text?) I have attached an image made from four screen captures as I selected part of a word. The top is the reference, with no selection. The next three select larger areas. All four images are aligned on the left edge of the document. I added two pink vertical bars for reference, and you can see that the "r" is one pixel further leftwards in the bottom two images. You can also see that the "v" is one pixel rightwards in the second image. Not every letter moves equally, it seems. Perhaps it's a rounding error for characters that are a non-integral number of pixels wide? The font used was Times New Roman, 12 point. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: abiword 2.8.6-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.37-generic 2.6.35.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Nov 7 19:58:36 2010 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/abiword InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1) ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.utf8 SourcePackage: abiword XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:3090): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_format_get_name: assertion `format != NULL' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:3090): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_format_get_name: assertion `format != NULL' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3107): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (nautilus:3108): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed ** Affects: abiword (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug maverick -- Letters in and near selection move by +-1 pixel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/672263 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs