Bug#399183: xserver-xorg: incorrectly calculatesTrueTypefontmetrics
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 12:30 +0400, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> On 6/19/07, Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that gfontview uses Xft for font rendering. It's a
> different method, for which I didn't see this bug.
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> Abiword is based on GTK+2 too, so it can't show the bug too.
Oh ok, that explains why I couldn't see it.
> I used the attaches Tcl/Tk script. Tcl/Tk 8.4.12, which is shipped
> with etch (and with sid also) uses old X fonts mechanism, which
> contains the bug (I think).
Ah good, I can see the spacing problem now using your script.
> So, to reproduce the bug, you have to use some other software.
> xfontsel comes to mind (with -sample, -sample16, -sampleUCS options).
Good point. I didn't try the xfontsel -sample options.
Thanks for the report and the test cases. Now we'll have to hunt down
an X font expert...
Drew
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