Bug 1839471

Summary: OpenType variant of Lucida Typewriter has extra spacing around characters
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tomas Smetana <tsmetana>
Component: bitmap-fontsAssignee: Pravin Satpute <psatpute>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 32CC: fonts-bugs, jpazdziora, petersen, pnemade, psatpute, pwu
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Description Tomas Smetana 2020-05-24 09:39:19 UTC 
Created attachment 1691497 [details]
Screenshot of the terminal in Fedora 32

Description of problem:
The OpenType version of Lucida Typewriter fonts has extra spacing around every character making it quite unusable. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bitmap-lucida-typewriter-opentype-fonts-0.3-33.fc32
xfce4-terminal-0.8.9.1-2.fc32

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install bitmap-lucida-typewriter-opentype-fonts
2. Select the "LucidaTypewriter Sans" for the termina font

Actual results:
There's extra spacing around the characters.

Expected results:
The font looks the same as on Fedora 30

Additional info:
I assume the automatic conversion from the PCF fonts doesn't work completely well. It's definitely better than in F31 (see bug #1767384) but not good yet.
Comment 1 Tomas Smetana 2020-05-24 09:41:13 UTC 
Created attachment 1691498 [details]
Screenshot of the terminal using PCF version of the font (downgraded pango)
Comment 2 Peng Wu 2020-09-03 03:23:10 UTC 
Upstream URL: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/fonttosfnt/-/merge_requests/7
Comment 3 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2020-09-09 07:42:06 UTC 
Based on the help from Peng Wu in bug 1753295, I've now rebuilt bitmap-fonts with fonttosfnt with that merge request applied and with .spec change from bug 1753295 comment 109 into https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/adelton/fedora-fixes/ and now LucidaTypewriter Sans 9 from bitmap-lucida-typewriter-opentype-fonts-0.3-35.ad1.fc32.noarch in xfce4-terminal under pango-1.44.7-2.fc32.x86_64 is displayed exactly like the old bitmap font under pango-1.43.0-4.fc30.x86_64.
Comment 4 Tomas Smetana 2020-09-09 08:02:28 UTC 
(In reply to Jan Pazdziora from comment #3)
> Based on the help from Peng Wu in bug 1753295, I've now rebuilt bitmap-fonts
> with fonttosfnt with that merge request applied and with .spec change from
> bug 1753295 comment 109 into
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/adelton/fedora-fixes/ and now
> LucidaTypewriter Sans 9 from
> bitmap-lucida-typewriter-opentype-fonts-0.3-35.ad1.fc32.noarch in
> xfce4-terminal under pango-1.44.7-2.fc32.x86_64 is displayed exactly like
> the old bitmap font under pango-1.43.0-4.fc30.x86_64.

Awesome. I confess I converted the one variant I cared about using FontForge some time ago with not so great but slightly better result: my font had actually smaller line-spacing than the original (no matter what I did with ascent / descent / line gap seemed to have an effect), but that could be worked around by setting line spacing in the terminal. I'll test your font. Thanks for the update.
Comment 5 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2020-09-09 08:09:55 UTC 
It's actually a pity xfce4-terminal does not allow spacing < 1 -- that would have given people more options for workarounds.
Comment 6 Tomas Smetana 2020-09-09 09:19:06 UTC 
Jan's LucidaTypewriter looks fine on my terminal and other applications as well.
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