Every time when I type an 'h' and than an 'i' with DejaVu Serif all the words left of the 'i' and the 'i' itself become invisible, that means white. When I copy the words and paste them into a document of another word-processor, e.g. Word or Textmaker, everything is alright, that means they are visible. This curious behaviour I can notice in OpenOffice only with DejaVu Serif and this combination of characters.
Using Windows 7 64bit and OpenOffice 3.2.1 I could neither reproduce this bug with the bundled version of DejaVu nor with the most recent snapshot. Could you try deleting the fonts and reinstall from http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ and see if the problem persists?
After I recognized the problem I started a discussion on the german mailinglist of OOo. The discussion has shown that the problem is also known by other users: http://de.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=94470 Curiously, the problem does not appear anymore after I have disabled the kerning and than re-enabled it again.
Fixed for Serif in r2400. Please test the next available snapshot at http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ (should be available tomorrow or the day after that).
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