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

[Eric Butler <eric extremeboredom net>]

http://eric.extremeboredom.net/images/screenshots/vera-sans-problem2.png

A side note, chaning the hinting setting in the "Font Rendering
Details" dialog does not have any effect on how fonts are rendered.

- Eric

On 11/30/05, Jim Gettys <jg freedesktop org> wrote:
> 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
> >
>
>