Follow-up Comment #6, bug #67544 (group groff):

At 2026-01-27T18:33:14-0500, Deri James wrote:
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> I think this means that the meta-data in both fonts (at least the
> glyph widths (the text example did not exercise the italic
> correction)) is sufficiently close to not be visibly detectable.

Thanks for checking this out!

> Of course the actual glyph shapes are identical because the glyphs for
> both TR and U-TR come from the same URW font. So, I did a  third run,
> again no kerning, but ne-TR.pdf produced via grops->ghostscript. This
> time there is a visible difference - but not to the glyph shapes, just
> a very slight vertical shift. This is likely to be a rounding issue,
> grops uses 2 decimals gropdf 3 decimals rounded, don't know what
> ghostscript uses. The fact it repeats every 4 lines points towards
> rounded calculation landing on pixel boundaries when the glyphs are
> filled.

I'm intrigued.  Do you think it's worth trying to increase the precision
of grops's calculations?  Or is this limitation on significant figures
imposed on us by the PostScript file format?



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