Your message dated Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:28:27 -0700
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and subject line Re: Font render problems for Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 8pt
has caused the Debian Bug report #315150,
regarding Font render problems for Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 8pt
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Package: libfreetype6
Version: 2.1.10-1
Severity: normal
Hi!
There seems to be a awkward problem with rendering Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
font at 8pt. When people have a screen set to 95--97 DPI, there is almost
no spacing between the letters and even parts of letter overlap (negative
spacing).
See for example my GNOME terminal:
http://paul.luon.net/tmp/Screenshot-Terminal.png
Since 96DPI is a rather common DPI and 8pt a normal font size for high
resolution screens, this problem should not be a rare one.
This problem seems to occur with Pango using apps/libs like Gecko or VTE.
I have no problem with it in for example the GtkFontSelector widget with
the same text.
I have downgraded to 2.1.7-2.4 and the problem is gone. If I need to
perform some tests, please let me know.
Greetings,
Paul
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (102, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, lc_ctype=nl_nl.u...@euro (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages libfreetype6 depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
libfreetype6 recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.3.7-2
Hello,
On my laptop LCD @96DPI, running the test case (gnome-terminal with
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono @ 8pt) shows none of the described rendering
errors. So I believe this bug is resolved in recent versions of FreeType;
closing the report accordingly.
If you are still having problems with the version of libfreetype6 in lenny
or beyond, please reopen and provide more information on how I can reproduce
the error.
Thanks,
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