Bug 302241 - Autohinter+ligatures problem
Summary: Autohinter+ligatures problem
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: freetype
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Behdad Esfahbod
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-09-23 16:47 UTC by Nicolas Mailhot
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-09-24 06:14:08 UTC
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2007-09-23 16:47:31 UTC 
Description of problem:

It seems the freetype autohinter has a problem with ligatures. When you type a
suite of fffff in a text box that uses a font including ligatures (like DejaVu
sans) you'll see the autohinter size "ff" and "f" differently

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

freetype-2.3.5-3.fc8.x86_64
Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2007-09-24 06:14:08 UTC 
Yeah, seen that.  I'm guessing that autohinter doesn't know about ff.

But, upstream please.  I'm not going to hack on freetype here.
Comment 2 Nicolas Mailhot 2007-09-24 07:56:10 UTC 
Can you point me to a bug tracker upstream cares about? Or use your powers as
Fedora maintainer to get upstream to create a category on freedesktop.org?

Fedora hits a ton of autohinter problems since other distros just use the
patent-encumbered engine, and the reports are just blackholed right now
Comment 3 Behdad Esfahbod 2007-09-28 21:25:57 UTC 
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freetype
Comment 4 Nicolas Mailhot 2007-09-29 07:46:54 UTC 
yay for the reformated sourceforge issue manager.
No wonder there's only 21 open issues :(
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