https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103322

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--- Comment #38 from Adam Fontenot <[email protected]> ---
Created attachment 176857
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"California" rendered in Liberation Serif at 12pt, 120% zoom on my screen

During some work on related Bug 142940, I came across a particularly bad
example of the issues caused by this bug and wanted to add it as an example.

It's the single word "California" rendered in Liberation Serif at 12pt, 120%
zoom on my screen. In this case, among many other issues, the renderer has
chosen to place the 'r' and 'n' characters so close together that they actually
overlap and appear to be an 'm'. It's a good illustration of how the lack of
subpixel positioning for glyphs ruins any attempt at proper kerning.

Incidentally, the related bug is about the fact that disabling pair kerning
ameliorates some of these problems. In this case, an extra pixel is placed
between the 'r' and 'n', probably because kerning nudges them slightly closer
together and creates situations where rounding will force them to overlap.

This specific image was created with a script I wrote to rerender a screenshot
as virtual subpixels with the same RGB alignment as my actual screen, and then
point upscaled three times. This allows users who may be on very different
screens to see exactly what rendering decisions Libreoffice + Fontconfig is
making for my screen.

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