Font: Space between letters adds space after last letter #40180

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Willi · 2014-05-13T17:52:32+02:00

Willi commented

2014-05-13 17:52:32 +02:00

System Information
Win7/64

Blender Version
blender-2.70-51fa66b-win64

Short description of error
There is an additonal character space - it's size can be specified with Spacing:Letter - after the last character. Therefore, the text is not centered if alignment is set to Center.
There should be only space between the letter's but not after the last letter.

Note: The text itself does not contain a trailing space. I expect the middle X to be in the center.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Have a look at this in the viewport: FontCentered.blend

**System Information** Win7/64 **Blender Version** blender-2.70-51fa66b-win64 **Short description of error** There is an additonal character space - it's size can be specified with Spacing:Letter - after the last character. Therefore, the text is not centered if alignment is set to Center. There should be only space between the letter's but not after the last letter. ![Bild_330.JPG](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F88845/Bild_330.JPG) Note: The text itself does not contain a trailing space. I expect the middle X to be in the center. **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** Have a look at this in the viewport: [FontCentered.blend](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F88844/FontCentered.blend)

Willi commented

2014-05-13 17:52:32 +02:00

Changed status to: 'Open'

Willi commented

2014-05-13 17:52:32 +02:00

Added subscriber: @willi-2

Fazekas Laszlo commented

2014-05-14 08:08:53 +02:00

Added subscriber: @totoro-4

Fazekas Laszlo commented

2014-05-14 08:08:53 +02:00

I see your point but I think this final gap is necessary. For example, if you edit the text, the cursor must be placed after this to add new characters correctly. The funny thing is that the centering of the rows are already calculated without this final gap. So maybe it needs only to add a (spacing:letter - 1)/2 offset to the (offset:x) value during the calculation.

Campbell Barton commented

2014-05-14 10:01:35 +02:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Archived'

Campbell Barton closed this issue

2014-05-14 10:01:35 +02:00

Campbell Barton self-assigned this 2014-05-14 10:01:35 +02:00

Campbell Barton commented

2014-05-14 10:01:35 +02:00

This I would put in the category of "It could work differently",

Text layout code can be improved, but its not a a bug.

This I would put in the category of *"It could work differently"*, Text layout code can be improved, but its not a a bug.

Fazekas Laszlo commented

2014-05-14 10:52:36 +02:00

Yep, backward compatibility. Just enter (spacing:letter - 1) / 2 value to the offset:x field manually.

Willi commented

2014-05-14 10:55:53 +02:00

Added subscriber: @ideasman42

Willi commented

2014-05-14 10:55:53 +02:00

@ideasman42: I fail to forbear answering in a closed thread. I disagree, because I think that spacing is meant as space between letters. But I do understand that this would be a (major) breaking change. (an additional checkbox controlling this behavior would make sense and keep compatibility).

@totoro-4: Yes, the cursor must be placed during editting, but the space does not have to be added before typing a new character.

@ideasman42: I fail to forbear answering in a closed thread. I disagree, because I think that spacing is meant as space *between* letters. But I do understand that this would be a (major) breaking change. (an additional checkbox controlling this behavior would make sense and keep compatibility). @totoro-4: Yes, the cursor must be placed during editting, but the space does not have to be added before typing a new character.

Fazekas Laszlo commented

2014-05-14 11:40:55 +02:00

The pivot supposed to be at the center. So this is a bug but it is hard to change because of compatibility reasons. But as fas as I know, it is possible to add some compatibility code to the file loader to handle old files correctly. It is already in use. The problem comes when the values are animated but I think it rarely happens.

Fazekas Laszlo commented

2014-05-15 07:31:19 +02:00

It is a closed thread but I have one more remark. This extra space is there in the center, right and justify alignment modes and with the text boxes as well. So it is not easy to change this behaviour. I see some another possible bugs here too, so I've opened a new bug report: #40204

blender-admin commented

2014-05-15 07:43:59 +02:00

This issue was referenced by 7c51638292

This issue was referenced by 7c5163829275577884c83184537c2fdd9aba92bc

Campbell Barton commented

2014-05-15 07:44:05 +02:00

Changed status from 'Archived' to: 'Open'

Campbell Barton reopened this issue

2014-05-15 07:44:05 +02:00

Campbell Barton commented

2014-05-15 07:46:07 +02:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Resolved'

Campbell Barton closed this issue

2014-05-15 07:46:07 +02:00

Campbell Barton commented

2014-05-15 07:46:07 +02:00

Closed by commit 7c51638292.

Closed by commit 7c51638292.

Campbell Barton commented

2014-05-15 07:49:42 +02:00

@willi-2 - we get so many requests blender behave differently, that we tend to restrict our bug tracker to track real mistakes/crashes in code,

...rather then areas which could work differently or be improved.

Checked this code and committed a fix.

Note that old files with center enabled will now show a little differently as @totoro-4 notes.

@willi-2 - we get so many requests blender behave differently, that we tend to restrict our bug tracker to track real mistakes/crashes in code, ...rather then areas which could work differently or be improved. Checked this code and committed a fix. Note that old files with center enabled will now show a little differently as @totoro-4 notes.

Willi commented

2014-05-15 12:15:42 +02:00

we get so many requests blender behave differently, that we tend to restrict our bug tracker to track real mistakes/crashes in code

I understand. I will rethink twice in future and take this into account. I hope you don't get other reports due to this fix.:) Thanks again for your support!

> we get so many requests blender behave differently, that we tend to restrict our bug tracker to track real mistakes/crashes in code I understand. I will rethink twice in future and take this into account. I hope you don't get other reports due to this fix.:) Thanks again for your support!

Campbell Barton commented

2014-05-16 07:01:35 +02:00

@willi-2, no worries, it may interest you that from checking on this report I found quite some issues with our text layout code :)

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@willi-2, no worries, it may interest you that from checking on this report I found quite some issues with our text layout code :) 7c51638292 c7ab68f1c4 ac9eaf9c91 e5b8d84613 42eb36ecf6 4725941f23 8b0729a731 be980b9f7d

Fazekas Laszlo commented

2014-05-16 17:41:27 +02:00

@ideasman42 A chain reaction of development? Thank you from me too! You solved these incredible fast.

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Font: Space between letters adds space after last letter #40180