Created attachment 378754 [details] illustration of font width issue Description of problem: While viewing a text file, with gedit, I notice that either my eyes are packing up, or there is trouble with the fixed widthedness (!) of the font. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gedit-2.28.0-1.fc12.i686 How reproducible: Yes, after reboot. Not noticed before about 3-4 weeks ago. Steps to Reproduce: 1. gedit sometext file. 2. font in preferences is Liberation Mono 8 Actual results: the columns don't quite line up, getting worse further to the right of the page. Expected results: I don't think the definition of fixed width has changed of late ;) Additional info: Could be a font package, but I have not noticed it elsewhere.
Behdad, any idea about this ? Seems kinda in your area of expertise...
Which version of freetype? IIRC 2.3.11 had apatch to make sure monospace fonts are still monospace after hinting. That's in F12 updates.
$ rpm -q freetype freetype-2.3.11-3.fc12.i686 $ rpm -q freetype -changelog * Thu Dec 03 2009 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad> 2.3.11-3 - Add freetype-2.3.11-more-demos.patch - New demo programs ftmemchk, ftpatchk, and fttimer # grep freet /var/log/yum.log Nov 14 20:03:05 Installed: freetype-debuginfo-2.3.9-6.fc12.i686 Nov 22 22:17:28 Erased: freetype-debuginfo Dec 11 00:14:18 Updated: freetype-2.3.11-3.fc12.i686 Dec 11 00:14:53 Updated: freetype-devel-2.3.11-3.fc12.i686 Dec 12 18:03:05 Installed: freetype-debuginfo-2.3.11-3.fc12.i686 The machine had been rebooted most days since dec 11, so would have been running this version, but just to confirm that same file is still a problem. If I edit the txt file and change eg 127 to 126 (where there are near identical startlines, I can see that the first part of the line is now lined up properly, so perhaps the issue lies only in digits ? Although by replacing a letter s (status), with all other alphas, I can see that eg an i and s are wider than other chars, maybe 2px. About half the other chars are only out by a pixel. In fact, this just made me remember some spreadsheets (openoffice) I have. After upgrade / past months, I noticed the fixed width font I chose there also was not fixed width, and the column of numbers was wonky. I thought the upgrade may have changed the font in the spreadsheet, and changed it back to a different fixed width font, but the numbers were still out of alignment. At the time I just thought that I may have been mistaken that the numbers previously used to line up, but now I' pretty sure they used to line up. Note that the fixed width font used in firefox in the bugzilla.r.c form submission (ie the additional comments field) seems to have eg those yum results lined up properly.
Just to confirm this is still an issue with: firefox-3.5.6-1.fc12.x86_64 freetype-2.3.11-3.fc12.x86_64 freetype-debuginfo-2.3.11-3.fc12.x86_64 freetype-devel-2.3.11-3.fc12.x86_64 gedit-2.28.3-1.fc12.x86_64 : eg gedit and paste: 987654321 123456789 111111111 222222222 333333333 444444444 555555555 6666666666 7777777777 8888888888 9999999999 000000000 121212121 343434343 565656565 787878787 909090909 aaaaaaaaa iiiiiiiii lllllllll iiiiiiiii yyyyyyyyy rrrrrrrrr ttttttttt rtrtrtrtr pipopipop s8s8s8s8s g6g6g6g6g Actually, even the font width is messed up in this text field in firefox.
actually: the fixed width font is fine in firefox as listed above. 987654321 123456789 111111111 222222222 333333333 444444444 555555555 666666666 777777777 888888888 999999999 000000000 121212121 343434343 565656565 787878787 909090909 aaaaaaaaa iiiiiiiii lllllllll iiiiiiiii yyyyyyyyy rrrrrrrrr ttttttttt rtrtrtrtr pipopipop s8s8s8s8s g6g6g6g6g
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Created attachment 463309 [details] screen capture of font trouble, font pref and version This is continues to be a problem in f13, updated. firefox-3.6.12-1.fc13.x86_64 freetype-2.3.11-7.fc13.x86_64 freetype-2.3.11-7.fc13.i686 gedit-2.30.2-1.fc13.x86_64 liberation-mono-fonts-1.06.0.20100721-1.fc13.noarch
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