Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 32229
curves change to polygon when circles are cut
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:43:16 UTC
I am filing this issue for quickes who has limited command of english. It might be a bug or a request for enhancement, or it might be a feature. The reporter draws two circles, filled and overlapping. When the top circle is cut away, the outline of the remaining circle has changed, instead of being a circle it is changed to a polygon made of straight line segments and becomes elliptical. This is easier to see when the circles are zoomed enlarged 300-400% This is easy to reproduce, but it is hard to describe and maybe hard to interpret. I will attache various screenshotss and files which may help to describe this issue.
Created attachment 16822 [details] before the cut
Created attachment 16823 [details] after the cut
Created attachment 16824 [details] 127% zoom
Created attachment 16825 [details] 617% zoom
Note this was from a debian build, as caolan mentioned on IRC it could be using --enable-libart vs gpc lib. I am still just collecting all the information yet and will file a debian bug too, so please wait.
This is reproducible on a windows or Sparc System as well.
Created attachment 16827 [details] enlarged drawing file marked
sparcmoz-->wg: do you mean reproduce from scratch, or just using the test files?
This is reproducible from scratch. I had a talk with the responsible programmer and a look into older versions. This behaviour has always been this way because it could not be managed in another way. But they know about the problem and they are already working on a better way. This may not make its way into OO 2.0 but surely into a later version. So at the moment this is not a bug and works as expected. Sorry, but there is no way at the moment that this could be changed quickly. Thanks for your work.
Closed.
many thanks for the quick response ;)
The numbers of segments of the poligon that is substitute of the circle (before cut), is varible depend of the original size of the circle. This transformation circle-poligon is production for the cut with others figures too. (square, star,...)
sparcmoz-->wg: based on your comments aabove, this could be re-opened as P5 target OOo later. Alternatively marked as enhancement P5 OOo later. To be closed it would need to be "wontfix" or perhaps it is a "duplicate" of some other IZ? It would be useful for us to keep track of this. Would that be OK?
Yes, would be okay. I am changing the issue type to enhancement and forwarding it to the right person to deal with it.
Changed platform and OS. Reassigned to Bettina. Like AW said this is already on their schedule for a later version but this is just a kind of reminder.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".