Re: [ft-devel] Rounding of ascent, descent, and line height

2013-01-10 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 13-01-10 03:03 PM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: Hi, There's a bug against Webkit: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102374 that I think points to a problem in FreeType. Simply put: for fonts that have

Re: [ft-devel] Rounding of ascent, descent, and line height

2013-01-10 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
Here is some old references on the subject of strange ascender, descender and height: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2009-06/msg00026.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2011-07/msg9.html http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?34156 Window also forces height =

Re: [ft-devel] Rounding of ascent, descent, and line height

2013-01-10 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: Hi, There's a bug against Webkit: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102374 that I think points to a problem in FreeType. Simply put: for fonts that have ascent+descent=line-height, this property may not hold

Re: [ft-devel] Rounding of ascent, descent, and line height

2013-01-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
There's a bug against Webkit: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102374 that I think points to a problem in FreeType. Simply put: for fonts that have ascent+descent=line-height, this property may not hold anymore after hinting. ascent+descent may be off by one pixel compared to