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

[Jim Gettys <jg freedesktop org>]

I'm also running Ubuntu breezy, but don't see the problem.

Exactly what size is currently chosen, Eric?

I do see a few problems with some characters, in particular "r", that
are clearly Vera's fault, at the size I use.

http://www.freedesktop.org/~jg/r_problem.png
			- Jim


On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:10 -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 13:57 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > I don't really know how FreeType kerning interacts with the bytecode
> > hinting ... it's probably something in that area.
> 
> hmm. If the kerning tables give absolute position information, then
> they'll certainly be wrong as the bytecode hinter cannot really fix
> them. If they give relative values, then it could be that the
> positioning is done with the "wrong" width.
> 
> As Owen suggested, it would be a lot easier for someone with that
> particular software stack to figure out where the bad values are coming
> from. I use a cairo-based pango on my desktop with the bytecode
> interpreter in FreeType and don't experience these issues.
> 
> -keith
>