Bug 22579

Summary:	OO.o devs think DejaVu kerning is broken for windows apps
Product:	DejaVu	Reporter:	Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	axel.niedenhoff, fonts-bugs, hdu
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Nicolas Mailhot 2009-07-01 03:59:04 UTC

See http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=102911

« Every windows application that relies on the GDI call GetKerningPairs() will fail with these problematic 
fonts. On the other hand the font's kern table is valid and OOo is right that it trusts GDI to provide the 
kerning pairs. There are four ways to fix it:
1. fix Windows so that GetKerningPairs() ignores pairs it cannot handle
2. remove the problematic kernings from the DejaVu Serif fonts
3. make sure that every glyph mentioned in the kern table has a (proper or dummy) unicode inside the 
baseplane
4. make OOo and all other Windows applications avoid GDI calls and parse all font tables themselves »

Comment 1 nocturnaldreamer 2010-07-22 06:26:15 UTC

Should be fixed for Serif in r2400. For Sans the offending entries probably have to be moved into PUA.

Comment 2 nocturnaldreamer 2010-07-22 12:23:04 UTC

Now also fixed for Sans in r2402.

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