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Bug 1284772

Summary: new version of Overpass Fonts available
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Oliver Ilian <oliver>
Component: overpass-fontsAssignee: Pravin Satpute <psatpute>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: QE Internationalization Bugs <qe-i18n-bugs>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.2CC: eng-i18n-bugs, petersen, qe-i18n-bugs, salmy, smaitra, sshedmak, xzhou
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: i18n, Rebase
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Fixed In Version: overpass-fonts-2.1-1.el7 Doc Type: Rebase: Bug Fixes and Enhancements
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: 1285705 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-11-04 04:24:46 UTC Type: Bug
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Screenshot showing sample text with libreoffice-writer-5.0.6.2-2.el7 and overpass-fonts-1.01-5.el7 at different font sizes (starting at 6), with no hinting instrcutions in the Overpass_Regular.tt
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Screenshot showing sample text with libreoffice-writer-5.0.6.2-2.el7 and overpass-fonts-2.1-1.el7 at different font sizes (starting at 6), with hinting instrcutions in the Overpass_Regular.ttf none

Description Oliver Ilian 2015-11-24 08:20:26 UTC 
Could we get a update to the overpass-fonts package to incorporate (hinting): 

https://github.com/RedHatBrand/overpass/commit/4458bf24ee2365b539a11eff529ae860246abfc8

This should improve the readability of the font.
Comment 1 Pravin Satpute 2015-11-26 10:21:27 UTC 
Yes, we can.

Good to do this first in Fedora. Cloning for Fedora.
Comment 2 Pravin Satpute 2016-01-04 07:12:34 UTC 
Done for Fedora, waiting for required ack to build for RHEL.
Comment 3 Oliver Ilian 2016-05-02 14:23:49 UTC 
is there any progress in this case?

Thanks Oliver
Comment 4 Pravin Satpute 2016-05-02 15:51:46 UTC 
Yes, I will build package this week.
Comment 5 Satyabrata Maitra 2016-05-05 08:03:47 UTC 
As per devel's brief on functionality of this package, QE will add test cases accordingly and provide qe_test_coverage ack.
Comment 6 Pravin Satpute 2016-05-05 08:42:26 UTC 
Build overpass-fonts-2.1-1.el7
Comment 9 sandeep shedmake 2016-07-11 06:16:26 UTC 
Created attachment 1178250 [details]
Screenshot showing sample text with libreoffice-writer-5.0.6.2-2.el7 and overpass-fonts-1.01-5.el7 at different font sizes (starting at 6), with no hinting instrcutions in the Overpass_Regular.tt

[sshedmak@client1 1.01]$ rpm -q overpass-fonts libreoffice-writer
overpass-fonts-1.01-5.el7.noarch
libreoffice-writer-5.0.6.2-2.el7.x86_64
[sshedmak@client1 1.01]$ echo $?
0
Comment 10 sandeep shedmake 2016-07-11 06:29:08 UTC 
Created attachment 1178253 [details]
Screenshot showing sample text with libreoffice-writer-5.0.6.2-2.el7 and overpass-fonts-2.1-1.el7 at different font sizes (starting at 6), with hinting instrcutions in the Overpass_Regular.ttf


[sshedmak@client1 1.01]$ rpm -q overpass-fonts libreoffice-writer
overpass-fonts-2.1-1.el7
libreoffice-writer-5.0.6.2-2.el7.x86_64
[sshedmak@client1 1.01]$ echo $?
0

With overpass-fonts-2.1-1.el7 (hinting is incorporated now), one can observe glyph's outline with desired combination of pixels getting lit or turned on.


Thereby, overpass-fonts-2.1-1.el7 improves readability of text greatly, especially at small font size(s) and lower resolution(s).
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 04:24:46 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2016-2347.html