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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
