Bug 29280 - [hinting] full hinting breaks monospace of Liberation Mono
Summary: [hinting] full hinting breaks monospace of Liberation Mono
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: freetype
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium major
Assignee: Werner Lemberg
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Reported: 2010-07-28 08:22 UTC by Bill McGonigle
Modified: 2010-07-28 11:51 UTC (History)
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Description Bill McGonigle 2010-07-28 08:22:55 UTC 
Bringing over from Fedora bug 508899:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508899

OK test case: 
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8 pango-view  --font='Liberation Mono' --hinting='none' --dpi=200 test_mono
results: no problems, e.g. width of '-' and '+' are the same

Problem test case:
    LANG=en_US.UTF-8 pango-view  --font='Liberation Mono' --hinting='full' --dpi=200 test_mono
results: width problem, e.g. width of '-' is narrower than '+'

Problem is also seen under Qt and in Haiku OS.
Comment 1 Werner Lemberg 2010-07-28 11:30:21 UTC 
Using pango-view 1.28.0 with FreeType 2.4.1 and FontConfig 2.8.0 on my
GNU/Linux box as described in the original report below, I can't see any width
difference if using the Liberation font bundle version 1.06 (dated 2010-07-21).
 I've also checked the hinting process with fontforge: The width of the `-'
glyph doesn't get altered.

I'm marking this bug as invalid here; in the redhat bugzilla you should
probably mark it as `solved'.
Comment 2 Bill McGonigle 2010-07-28 11:51:25 UTC 
Thanks for the quick turn-around Werner.  We're still on 2.3, that could be the difference.

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