Am Mittwoch, den 10.02.2010, 01:28 -0500 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod: > On 01/28/2010 11:18 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> There are several GTK programs I am using (since I'm XFCE user) and > >> some situations when words like "projects" occur, e.g. when surfing > >> with Thunar through my $HOME directory which actually includes a > >> directory called "projects" and a symlink to this called "Projekte". > >> There is also Geany which has a menu entry "Projects". With > >> settings 96dpi and a 8pt sans serif font, e.g. DejaVu Sans, the o > >> isn't correctly rendered. > > > > IMHO, this can't be a FreeType issue since this library always renders > > a single glyph per call, not a glyph string, and it seems that a > > single `o' is rendered just fine, right? > > > > Behdad, how do you come to this impression? > > Humm, good point. This looks tricky at best. There are three components > here: > > - Pango: can't be a pango bug since Pango doesn't draw anything whatsoever, > > - FreeType: unless the font is substituting a new 'o' glyph in that context, > it's unlikely to be a FreeType issue, > > - cairo: hard to imagining it being a cairo issue either, since cairo > composites glyphs and each individual glyph is rendered (by FreeType) > separately, so I can't see why the bounding box of the glyph may be cropped in > a specific context. > > To summarize, someone who can reproduce this needs to debug it. I couldn't > reproduce. That said, the rendering looks to me like it's with patented > bytecode-interpretter enabled. Not sure how that may make a difference.
I unfortunately don't think I have enough knowledge to debug this issue myself. :s Do you guys think it maybe could be a distro-specific bug and I should report this issue also at Fedoras Bugzilla? Regards, Dominic -- Dominic Hopf <[email protected]> http://dominichopf.de/ Key Fingerprint: A7DF C4FC 07AE 4DDC 5CA0 BD93 AAB0 6019 CA7D 868D
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