Publisher 2.6 beta and potentially older versions - paragraph composing, letter and word spacing, hyphenation

[cgidesign]

There are already posts about bugs in the hypenation of all Publisher versions - but it seems they got overlooked by the support team as there is no reply from them for over a week:

 

 

But now I think there is a general issue with the justification algorythm in Pubisher:

In the attached documents I tried to reduce the width of the whitespaces to get rid of the ugly wide empty space between the words in some lines.

In InDesing CS6 it is simple to achieve that. In Publisher it seems to be impossible, regardless of which settings I change.

Hyphenation in conjunction with non zero letter spacing is definately broken, like shown in the linked posts, but it seems the word spacing also acts different than I would expect it.

The attached Publisher doc is from version 2.6.0.2900 beta.

Edit:

I cross checked with Scribus as well. It is the same like with InDesing. A little adjustments in word or letter spacing and the paragraph looks good.

SourceSerif4-Regular.otf justification.indd justification.afpub

[MikeTO]

Although it's been 10 days, I think Serif just hasn't had an opportunity to review the bug report I filed yet.