Re: [ft] mis-rendered o when a j is near

[Dominic Hopf]

Am Mittwoch, den 10.02.2010, 01:28 -0500 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod:
> On 01/28/2010 11:18 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> >> There are several GTK programs I am using (since I'm XFCE user) and
> >> some situations when words like "projects" occur, e.g. when surfing
> >> with Thunar through my $HOME directory which actually includes a
> >> directory called "projects" and a symlink to this called "Projekte".
> >> There is also Geany which has a menu entry "Projects".  With
> >> settings 96dpi and a 8pt sans serif font, e.g. DejaVu Sans, the o
> >> isn't correctly rendered.
> > 
> > IMHO, this can't be a FreeType issue since this library always renders
> > a single glyph per call, not a glyph string, and it seems that a
> > single `o' is rendered just fine, right?
> > 
> > Behdad, how do you come to this impression?
> 
> Humm, good point.  This looks tricky at best.  There are three components 
> here:
> 
>   - Pango: can't be a pango bug since Pango doesn't draw anything whatsoever,
> 
>   - FreeType: unless the font is substituting a new 'o' glyph in that context,
> it's unlikely to be a FreeType issue,
> 
>   - cairo: hard to imagining it being a cairo issue either, since cairo
> composites glyphs and each individual glyph is rendered (by FreeType)
> separately, so I can't see why the bounding box of the glyph may be cropped in
> a specific context.
> 
> To summarize, someone who can reproduce this needs to debug it.  I couldn't
> reproduce.  That said, the rendering looks to me like it's with patented
> bytecode-interpretter enabled.  Not sure how that may make a difference.

I unfortunately don't think I have enough knowledge to debug this issue
myself. :s

Do you guys think it maybe could be a distro-specific bug and I should
report this issue also at Fedoras Bugzilla?

Regards,
Dominic

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