I was on a Windows 8.1 machine. I literally just grabbed all the packages
from gnustep.org and installed them. I attempted to make changes in
SystemPreferences.app to fix the issue, but rendering issues made it so I
couldn't complete the changes.

On 11 February 2016 at 03:43, Gregory Casamento <[email protected]>
wrote:

> When was the Windows installer that was used created?  Are we sure this is
> not a bug that has already been resolved in development?
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 10, 2016, Ivan Vučica <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If someone wants to continue looking into fixing this, I've spent a few
>> minutes trying to track this down completely blindly (i.e. I didn't
>> actually run any code).
>>
>> The number 16 in '16 characters until whitespace appears' _seems_ to come
>> from:
>>   http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/gui/trunk/Source/NSLayoutManager.m
>> method -drawGlyphsForGlyphRange:atPoint: line "#define GBUF_SIZE 16 /*
>> TODO: tweak */".
>>
>> Combined with Riccardo's mention that this may be related to DPI, and
>> following the call to C function GSShowGlyphsWithAdvances() from
>>
>> http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/gui/trunk/Source/NSGraphicsContext.m
>> I'd say the fixer will want to look at
>>
>> http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/back/trunk/Source/cairo/CairoGState.m
>> method -GSShowGlyphsWithAdvances:::, and
>>
>> http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/back/trunk/Source/cairo/CairoFontInfo.m
>> method -drawGlyphs:length:on:.
>>
>> (I'll post this in the bug as well.)
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 3:50 PM Ivan Vučica <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Odd whitespace in the middle of a word is also a bug. It seems to happen
>>> after exactly 16 glyphs.
>>>
>>> I filed Savannah bug 47109 <http:///>.
>>>
>>> James, additional repro steps would be appreciated. Can you confirm the
>>> issue goes away if you follow Riccardo's advice?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Riccardo Mottola <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am pretty sure you have a resolution problem, I have seen this
>>>> several times on windows (and also on X11 on one FreeBSD workstation).
>>>>
>>>> Please set your Windows to "100%" and do not enlarge text and icons.
>>>>
>>>> For some reason, we enlarge the controls, but then use a small font to
>>>> draw the text. It would be best of course to "scale" up also the the font,
>>>> or, at least to ignore the resize and keep everything pixels-sized to
>>>> GNUstep, but currently it is hybrid.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Riccardo
>>>>
>>>> On 02/10/16 03:35, James Carthew wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Attached is a picture showing the rendering error. This was generated
>>>> using the pre-built windows files from the GNUstep website.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [image: Inline images 1]
>>>>
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