This is a known bug. Marc Maurer was working on a complete fix for the problem.
Cheers Martin On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:08 AM, gpk <g...@kochanski.org> wrote: > Whoops, here's the image. > > ** Attachment added: "bug.png" > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/672263/+attachment/1726105/+files/bug.png > > -- > 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 AbiWord > Stable Builds, which is subscribed to abiword in ubuntu. > > Status in “abiword” package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > 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 > > > -- 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
