Re: Character shifting with cairo

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

Hi,

On Monday, January 2, 2012 00:14 CET, 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.)

That patch helped a little, but did not made it perfect. Wihtout the patch, it 
looks like Riccardos screenshot, sometimes characters above each other.
With the patch, the characters are not above each other anymore, but still very 
close to each other.

As I wrote in the other thread, the problem for me only seems to be on screens 
with 4:3 resolution. On widescreens everything looks good, with and without the 
patch.

cheers,
Sebastian


>
> -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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