I did some experiments with the FreeSans.ttf file affected by the problem and looks like the extra vertical space is "cumulative": I experimented with some English text (which uses latin glyphs whose glyphs reside in an unicode range < u100, u7a to be more precise).
Compare the following screenshots (I always used the same environment and the same text file): [1] was taken using the version currently used by the graphical installer (_not_ affected by the problem) [2] was taken using the FreeSans.ttf file included in the latest ttf-freefont package (20060126-1) I then stripped some glyphs out of the above ttf file affected by the problem, and my conclusion is that the more I strip glyphs, the better it gets (i.e. it becomes harder to notice the problem) [3] includes only glyphs on the range u+0-u+500 [4] includes only glyphs on the range u+0-u+100 I also noticed that if I strip all but glyphs in the range u0:u130 I get the following: Copyright (c) 2000-2005 by George Williams. Executable based on sources from 12:08 5-Dec-2005. "A nested lookup with tag 'L' could not be found. The generated font will not be useable. Try Element->Find Problems" if I strip all but u0:u131 that message is not displayed Not sure this helps but hope it does regards, Davide [1] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/freefont_np.png [2] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/freefont_all_glyphs.png [3] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/freefont_0-500.png [4] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/freefont_0-100.png
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