Description of problem: Some spacing is off. Capital "T" allows the next lowercase letter to be too close using the "Normal" (i.e. non-bold, non-oblique) face. I'm sorry I don't know the technical terms for this anomaly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4-1.fc5 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set fonts to 10.5 or 11 points, for example 2. Look at words like "Tomboy" or "DejaVu". Actual results: Some capital letters are spaced strangely. This seems like a regression from the previous version since I just updated tonight and don't remember it happening previously. Expected results: Nicely spaced letters Additional info:
See also: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334758 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=15185495 https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ttf-dejavu/+bug/35470/ So this is an upstream bug. Not clear right now if the bug in in DejaVu, Pango or fontforge I'm going to sit on it some time while the situtation clarifies. I urge you to do the tests proposed in the Gnome bug and report your results there so the clarification goes faster. I'd rather not do a rollback before we know what needs to be fixed for the next dejavu release
Nicolas, it seems clear, especially from the last one you list: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ttf-dejavu/+bug/35470/ ...that this is a Pango problem. I installed freetype-demos-2.1.10-5.2.1, and ran: ftstring -m 'Terminal' 24 /usr/share/fonts/dejavu-fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf Without using Pango, there's no kerning issue, results are similar enough to the upstream bugs that there's no reason to upload additional screenshots here. I'm reassigning this bug to pango where it belongs. Thanks for your help.
*** Bug 186718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Since people in gnome bug seem to agree the short-term fix is to remove arabic from dejavu (done in 2.4.1) and the long-term fix is to add opentype BASE table support to FOSS font tools, I suggest to close this bug as upstream
Reassigning pango bugs to Behdad.
This is being tracked upstream, and dejavu has been fixed to not hit this bug in the meanwhile.