Bug 16442

Summary:	Greek letters are printed incorrectly
Product:	DejaVu	Reporter:	Wizard <hellraiser270>
Component:	Sans	Assignee:	Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Screenshot of bold capital lambda and capital delta

Description Wizard 2008-06-20 05:19:47 UTC

Using DejaVu Sans v2.25 in Windows XP, the Greek bold capital letters Δ (delta) and Λ (lamda) are printed very smudged in the center, while they appear fine on screen. This is confirmed by two others.

Comment 1 Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) 2013-12-21 18:41:52 UTC

Created attachment 91101 [details]
Screenshot of bold capital lambda and capital delta

DejaVu Sans Bold letters U+0394, U+039B, U+1D759 and U+1D760 have bad hinting, resulting in the capital lambda and capital delta being distorted at larger sizes.

Attached screenshot of Windows 7's rendering.

Freetype 2.5.3 will behave identically to Windows 7. Older Freetype versions have a different distortion that also affects smaller sizes.
Freetype bug: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?40975

Comment 2 nocturnaldreamer 2014-01-14 05:24:03 UTC

Thanks for the link, Jan! I'm really sorry this took so long, but it should be fixed now. Snapshots for testing will appear shortly at http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/snapshots/

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