Bug 139194

Summary: Letter 'ö' needs hinting.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alexander Boström <abo>
Component: freetypeAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.alexander.bostrom.net/ouml.html
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Description Alexander Boström 2004-11-13 22:07:26 UTC 
Description of problem:
The letter 'ö' in Luxi Sans Typewriter at size 6 needs improved
hinting. It should look like an 'o', except for the dots, but instead
the right side of the ring is too thick.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
freetype-2.1.9-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install FC3 and update.
2. Create test account and log in.
3. Go to http://www.alexander.bostrom.net/ouml.html
4. Try again with subpixel rendering enabled.
  
Actual results:
With and without subpixel rendering, the right side of the ring is
thicker than the left side.

Expected results:
The left and right side of the ring should be equally thick and also
be equal to an 'o'.
Comment 1 Alexander Boström 2004-11-13 22:08:51 UTC 
Created attachment 106651 [details]
Screenshot of problem without subpixel rendering,
Comment 2 Alexander Boström 2004-11-13 22:09:28 UTC 
Created attachment 106652 [details]
Screenshot of problem with subpixel rendering enabled.
Comment 3 Owen Taylor 2004-11-15 19:10:00 UTC 
There is no such font as Luxi Sans Typewriter

'Lucida Typewriter' is a bitmap font as we ship it. (B&H may
have released a scalable version; is's reasonably close to
the Lucida Console shipped with Windows.)

'Luxi Mono 'is the scalable font. But it's serifed, so not
the font you are looking at.

So, I don't know what font is in your screenshot, and thus
can't do anything with this bug report. It *might* be
Luxi Sans - your screenshot doesn't look monospace. But
I'm not sure.

Also, can you attach non-scaled images? (Maybe a crop of
small portion. The scaled images make telling anything about
the font hinting basically impossible
Comment 4 Alexander Boström 2004-11-15 21:26:52 UTC 
The screenshots aren't scaled, but yes, full screenshots are overkill.
I actually did reproduce the effect in a couple of word processors,
but that was a bad idea as well...

But anyway, it was both a typo (wrote Luxi, meant Lucida Sans
Typewriter) and not a pure FC3 installation. Sorry!

The font I'm actually looking at is "Lucida Sans Typewriter" from
java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0-2jpp.nosrc.rpm. It's easy to reproduce the
problem at sizes 9 to 14, if you're interested.
Comment 5 Owen Taylor 2004-11-15 22:05:47 UTC 
If the screenshots aren't scaled, then you have a lot more serious
display problems then a bit of mishinting on the ö..

I don't really think there is anything I can do on this issue
with a font that doesn't come with FC3.
Comment 6 Owen Taylor 2004-11-15 22:51:09 UTC 
Ah, just switched to firefox recentlly, and didn't realize it tended
to scale images down without any visible indication other than
extreme ugliness.