Description of problem: The kerning is incorrect in some applications. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install the Microsoft Corefonts for comparions (corefonts.sf.net) 2. Load Abiword and type "Test AV fi" on first and second line. Set first line to Arial and second line to Liberation Sans. 3. Repeat step 2 in Openoffice Actual results: The kerning is incorrect in Openoffice Expected results: The kerning should match in Openoffice Additional info: The same problems occurs when using the Liberation fonts with Apache FOP (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/)
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
The kerning of Liberation Serif font version 1.04 is not working neither on Linux, nor on Windows. Tested with OpenOffice.org. Liberation Serif Version 1.00 works OK on Linux. Liberation Serif Version 1.03 works OK on Windows. Liberation Serif Version 1.04 does not work neither on Linux nor on Windows.
Created attachment 349507 [details] 1.04 in comparison with 1.00
Zap this bug. Please reopen if bug persists after testing on latest version.
As an aside, OO.o devs posted on how to generate OO.o-compatible kerning in fontforge here: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=103157 « Liberation 1.00 to 1.03 contained the traditional kern tables, but 1.04 did neither contain them nor their newer GPOS.kern counterparts. Version 1.05 provides kerning details only via GPOS, but not via the traditional tables. Since 1.05 onyl uses the "pair adjustment" type of GPOS.kern there is no good reason they do not also provide the traditional tables. Especially when considering the OpenType 1.06 specification, which is quite clear on that topic: "Fonts intended for cross-platform use or for the Windows platform in general should conform to the 'kern' table format". I support this notion. @fyva: if you use fontforge to create your fonts please do not forget to enable the "Traditional Kerning" checkbox in File->GenerateFonts->Options->SFNT »
Thanks for info. I am redoing the conversion with your suggestions.
Hi Nicolas, could you do me a favor for taking screenshot on "GenerationFonts window" and "SFNT windows" so I could check correct options when generating the font please? Thanks a lot!
Hi Fyva, could you test again with 1.05.1.20090706 please? https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-ttf-1.05.1.20090706.tar.gz https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-ttf-1.05.1.20090706.zip
Created attachment 350739 [details] 1.05.1.20090706.zip on Linux with Abiword and OOo 3.1.0 Version 1.05.1.20090706.zip don't show kerning on Linux and Windows in OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 for Liberation Serif. Liberation-fonts-ttf-1.05.1.20090706.tar.gz is broken? (liberation-fonts-ttf-1.05.1.20090630.tar.gz too?) md5sum fb44d8d873d75ea21a8e34a752b33c59 liberation-fonts-ttf-1.05.1.20090630.tar.gz md5sum 20552f52883a8a1440e13526f3765313 liberation-fonts-ttf-1.05.1.20090706.tar.gz It gives this error when extracting with tar on Linux: tar: Skipping to next header tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors 7-zip on Linux and 7-zip on Windows can't open them too (can open gz, but can't open tar) On Windows the kerning do not work too for 1.05.1.20090706.zip in OOo 3.1.0. (Liberation fonts in these archives opened with FontForge (or font preview on Windows) show wrong version number 1.02.)
The new fonts do not contain the traditional kern tables either. I will attach the fontforge screenshots to guide you how to generate them.
Created attachment 350791 [details] generating fonts with traditional kerning in fontforge, step one
Created attachment 350792 [details] generating fonts with traditional kerning in fontforge, step two
Created attachment 350793 [details] generating fonts with traditional kerning in fontforge, step three
(In reply to comment #9) > On Windows the kerning do not work too for 1.05.1.20090706.zip in OOo 3.1.0. > (Liberation fonts in these archives opened with FontForge (or font preview on > Windows) show wrong version number 1.02.) Hi, thanks for info. a. I am doing repack now. b. I have this one acknowledged. Will file another bug for record.
(In reply to comment #10) > The new fonts do not contain the traditional kern tables either. I will attach > the fontforge screenshots to guide you how to generate them. Thanks for screenshot!
(In reply to comment #13) > Created an attachment (id=350793) [details] > generating fonts with traditional kerning in fontforge, step three Is all other checkboxes correct on the screenshot of step three? I used scripts to utilize fontforge to create TTFs from SFDs. Am I supposed to add 'Old Style kern' in the scripts also?
> Is all other checkboxes correct on the screenshot of step three? You seem to use *sfd files for editing+managing the fonts and then generate the font files from them? If this is so then it makes sense to keep the checkboxes regarding "PfaEdit Tables" disabled. If fontforge didn't default to enable the checkbox for "PS Glyph Names" I wouldn't have enabled it either. They only cost a few KB though and maybe other apps have some use for them. > I used scripts to utilize fontforge to create TTFs from SFDs. Am I supposed to add 'Old Style kern' in the scripts also? I guess so. Since you are targeting the fonts also for Windows please be aware of the problem I outlined in http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=102911#desc16 Just make sure that all glyphs references in kerning pairs have a codepoint inside the unicode baseplane assigned.
(In reply to comment #17) > > I used scripts to utilize fontforge to create TTFs from SFDs. Am I supposed > > to add 'Old Style kern' in the scripts also? > > I guess so. It seems best practice to include old tables for now as some software does not work properly otherwise (though said software should also fix its font support bugs, we can't make sure every possible font in the distro respects this even if we do try to improve their overall quality) I don't have the faintest idea how it works scripts-wise. Asking on fontforge lists is probably the right channel (if you need a specific fontforge version for it to work I'm sure our fontforge maintainer will be happy to update it)
(In reply to comment #17) > > Is all other checkboxes correct on the screenshot of step three? > Since you are targeting the fonts also for Windows please be aware of the > problem I outlined in > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=102911#desc16 > Just make sure that all glyphs references in kerning pairs have a codepoint > inside the unicode baseplane assigned. @hdu please open DejaVu bugs at DejaVu upstream. Also, is this a problem for FLOSS windows apps that go through cairo and fontconfig (as they should nowadays?) http://behdad.org/text/
> @hdu please open DejaVu bugs at DejaVu upstream Here we are working on getting the liberation fonts into good shape. Testing them for common problems seen in related fonts (like DejaVu) should be considered to be a valid concern. Else there is that easily avoidable risk that new releases fail on windows with exactly the same symptoms. > Also, is this a problem for FLOSS windows apps that go through cairo and fontconfig (as they should > nowadays?) AFAIK most applications on Windows are not yet ported to to go through cairo or fontconfig for their graphics needs. These could be considered obsolete irrelevant by some but this is probably quite hard to convicnenot the consensus of the users on that platform. If these other apps depend on the Windows GDI call GetKerningPairs() instead they have the same problem. I'm sorry I cannot provide the exact list of every app (be it FLOSS or traditional) and the exact versions that are affected. If somebody else can provide such a list this would be most appreciated. All I'm saying is that this problem would affect every application that relies on the GetKerningPairs() call.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1470687 Tried added fmflags in fontforge script, to include old style kern table during generation from SFDs to TTFs.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=114049 http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/liberation-fonts/1.05.1.20090713/1.fc12/noarch/liberation-sans-fonts-1.05.1.20090713-1.fc12.noarch.rpm Please check if traditional kern table is are there. Could anyone kindly share procedures of test?
> Please check if traditional kern table is are there Sorry, they are not. > Could anyone kindly share procedures of test? The quickest way to check if the table is there is by just doing hexdump -C LiberationSans-Regular.ttf which will result in something like 00000000 00 01 00 00 00 12 01 00 00 04 00 20 46 46 54 4d |........... FFTM| 00000010 49 21 dd a2 00 02 0f b0 00 00 00 1c 47 44 45 46 |I!..........GDEF| 00000020 00 27 02 a5 00 01 fe 8c 00 00 00 1e 47 50 4f 53 |.'..........GPOS| 00000030 ec 90 e4 de 00 01 fe fc 00 00 10 b4 47 53 55 42 |............GSUB| 00000040 93 3c 82 4b 00 01 fe ac 00 00 00 50 4f 53 2f 32 |.<.K.......POS/2| 00000050 f7 1a 8b 76 00 00 01 a8 00 00 00 60 63 6d 61 70 |...v.......`cmap| 00000060 1d c3 05 9f 00 00 0c 84 00 00 0b b6 63 76 74 20 |............cvt | 00000070 41 f4 43 ea 00 00 22 1c 00 00 02 14 66 70 67 6d |A.C...".....fpgm| 00000080 73 d3 23 b0 00 00 18 3c 00 00 07 05 67 61 73 70 |s.#....<....gasp| 00000090 00 18 00 09 00 01 fe 7c 00 00 00 10 67 6c 79 66 |.......|....glyf| 000000a0 93 48 ad 96 00 00 29 70 00 01 b8 f4 68 65 61 64 |.H....)p....head| 000000b0 f2 fb 5b ca 00 00 01 2c 00 00 00 36 68 68 65 61 |..[....,...6hhea| 000000c0 0e 4b 08 a2 00 00 01 64 00 00 00 24 68 6d 74 78 |.K.....d...$hmtx| 000000d0 2e dd 09 42 00 00 02 08 00 00 0a 7c 6c 6f 63 61 |...B.......|loca| 000000e0 50 0f c1 1e 00 00 24 30 00 00 05 40 6d 61 78 70 |P.....$0...@maxp| 000000f0 07 04 07 d0 00 00 01 88 00 00 00 20 6e 61 6d 65 |........... name| 00000100 23 57 ab c2 00 01 e2 64 00 00 07 fb 70 6f 73 74 |#W.....d....post| 00000110 5a cf 99 96 00 01 ea 60 00 00 14 19 70 72 65 70 |Z......`....prep| The table-name-tags are easily visible in the hexdump. Please note that the "kern" tag is missing in this example as the traditional kern table is missing in the font file. Try TTX (from http://sourceforge.net/projects/fonttools/) if you don't like the hexdump-method. Another method to check if the font is directly usable on Windows is to use the GetKerningPairs() API for this font and check the result.
I generated from the SFD to the TTF manually with fontforge (on Fedora 11) and the kern table is there: $ hexdump -C LiberationSans.ttf |grep kern 000000d0 2e dd 09 42 00 00 02 18 00 00 0a 7c 6b 65 72 6e |...B.......|kern| However, I could not make it with my fontforge script. Need to confirm if the fmflags are only working on specific later versions of fontforge.
Used the fontforge 20090408 to generate: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/liberation-fonts/1.05.1.20090713/2.fc12/noarch/liberation-sans-fonts-1.05.1.20090713-2.fc12.noarch.rpm
These fonts have the same problem... Seeing that the related question regarding fontforge-scripting has been answered in fontforge-devel (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20090714045412.GA4545%40khaled-laptop&forum_name=fontforge-devel) we're getting close though.
Redone the conversion script: https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-ttf-1.05.1.20090721.zip https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-ttf-1.05.1.20090721.tar.gz
Created attachment 354434 [details] kerning for Liberation Serif in liberation-fonts-ttf-1.05.1.20090721.zip It seems that these fonts work properly (see picture, tested on Linux with OOo310m11). (BTW, the archives tar.gz are apparently OK. I get the error due to my time settings: tar: ttf/LiberationMono-BoldItalic.ttf: time stamp 2009-07-21 05:48:21 is 9045.718828424 s in the future )