Re: Bitstream Vera Sans render problem with GTK apps (Firefox, KDE OK)

[Jim Gettys <jg freedesktop org>]

Ubuntu breezy is the first linux distribution to ship the latest Pango,
which has a different rendering backend, and may be also be kerning for the
first time.

Owen, Keith, help me out here... Is this likely to be a Vera bug, or a
Pango/cairo bug?  I suspect Vera, but I suspect you're in the best
position to make the call.
			Regards,
				- Jim


On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 04:45 -0500, Jim Lyles wrote:
> Looks to me as if some sort of optical kerning has been enabled.
> Observe the To and Ta pairs as well.
> I don't recall there being a Fi kern pair in Vera; there is most
> certainly To and Ta, but the amount of
> kern appears to be too much, particularly at this small size.
> 
> -Jim
> 
> 
> Eric Butler wrote: 
> > Hi everyone, the following screenshot demonstrates my problem:
> > 
> > http://eric.extremeboredom.net/images/screenshots/vera-sans-problem1.png
> > 
> > Note the "File" menu. Firefox renders this properly, but epiphany
> > (which is a native GTK application obviously, I have this problem with
> > any GTK app) doesn't leave enough space between the "F" and the "i".
> > This is the most obvious way to demo the problem, but other characters
> > are having trouble as well.
> > 
> > My "Application Font" is "Bitstream Vera Sans Roman" size 8.
> > 
> > I am using Ubuntu Breezy with the following version information:
> > 
> > libttf2 1.4pre.20030402-1.1
> > libxft2 2.1.7-1ubuntu5
> > fontconfig 2.3.2-1ubuntu4
> > 
> > Native hinting and subpixel rendering are both enabled.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Eric
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