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Re: Character shifting with cairo


From: Gregory Casamento
Subject: Re: Character shifting with cairo
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 20:34:28 -0500

I can confirm that this is indeed the same problem I'm seeing.

On Sunday, January 1, 2012, Eric Wasylishen <ewasylishen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Riccardo,
> I suspect this is the same problem that we discussed in the "Fonts displaying strangely…" thread:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2011-10/msg00207.html
>
> Try the patch I posted there and see if the spacing problems go away.
>
> The solution is to finish and apply that patch, addressing the concerns Fred mentioned (and ideally moving the opal font code to the cairo backend, too.)
>
> -Eric
>
> On 2012-01-01, at 3:28 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Gregory told me he has problems with cairo and printing: he sees shifted characters.
>> At first, I couldn't reproduce (except with xlib, where printed characters are aligned with the screen font, quite terrible in certain cases).
>>
>> However, I noticed that on one computer, I see shifted stuff directly on the screen, I attach a screenshot with the evidence.
>>
>> I have not seen it elsewhere and interesting is also the fact that exporting the display to another computer from this one doesn't show the artifact: it means it could be font based. However, not good.
>>
>> Riccardo
>>
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