Bug 11575

Summary:	Spaces between glyphs
Product:	DejaVu	Reporter:	Ben Laenen <bl.bugs>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Werner Lemberg <wl>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	freedesktop
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Screenshot of spaces between characters

Description Ben Laenen 2007-07-12 14:10:02 UTC

[Imported here from our mailing list for future reference]

Reported by John Boncek:

I installed DejaVu Sans under MontaVista Linux / X Windows and got display
with way too much space between characters, like this, 

        c  h  a  r  a  c  t  e  r  s    s  p  a  c  e  d    o  u  t

in all text strings using both English (Latin) and Arabic characters.
Other fonts already on the system still look OK.  This font looks this way
in the xfontsel utility as well as in application programs.  I am new to
font installation so I suspect I neglected to run some configuration
utility or modify some configuration file that's needed.  I used 

        ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
        mkfontdir

as instructed in this system.  Does the above appearance suggest what I am
missing?  Thanks for your attention.

Comment 1 Ben Laenen 2007-07-12 14:11:56 UTC

Created attachment 10704 [details]
Screenshot of spaces between characters

Screenshot

Comment 2 Ben Laenen 2007-07-12 14:17:26 UTC

Cause of this bug:

ttmkfdir puts wrong data in the fonts.scale file. It makes the DejaVu fonts "character cell" fonts instead of normal "proportional" ones. This happens because of a dumb test in ttmkfdir.



How to solve this:

You have to manually override this in your fonts.scale file. The lines

DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-DejaVu Sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1
                            c here means character cell: ^^^

should become

DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-DejaVu Sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

with the p from proportional.

After this you have to run the
  mkfontdir
command.

Comment 3 Nicolas Mailhot 2008-12-06 11:25:22 UTC

Mass move of freetype bugs to the new freetype product

Comment 4 Nicolas Mailhot 2008-12-06 11:27:49 UTC

Reopen the NOTOURBUG reports now they're correctly affected

Comment 5 Ben Laenen 2008-12-06 11:33:39 UTC

Nicolas, this has nothing to do with freetype...

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