When compared to the unaccented character "o", the accented "ö" is too thin. While it uses the same horizontal space, it seems squeezed to the left margin.
Created attachment 6141 [details] screenshot demonstrating the problem
What size in ppem, or font size with your monitor's dpi, does this occur at? I cannot reproduce this bug. Are you using Fedora? If so maybe try to change the hinting settings in the gnome font configuration tool, the autohinter is probably misbehaving with the font at that size. Btw, did you stretch the screenshot?
Your screenshot looks like you're using the autohinter, if it is the case, it's an autohinter bug.
Well, I'm using FC6 now on all of my machines and can't reproduce the problem there. As for autohinting, I used and still use stock Fedora Core packages, so I use autohinting if the FC packages use it as well. If there isn't anybody else with this problem, feel free to close the bug.
I've exactly the same Problem with FC6 on two different machines - however on my machines the umlaut o is not only renderd too thin but also the second dot is missing. I am using rgb-subpixel-antialiasing and hinting style set to "full.
Created attachment 8633 [details] too thin, second dot missing
In Gnome the fix for this auto-hinting bug is : - go to Font Preferences - in Details - Change the Hinting from Full to Medium of Slight.
(In reply to comment #5) > I've exactly the same Problem with FC6 on two different machines - however on > my machines the umlaut o is not only renderd too thin but also the second dot > is missing. > > I am using rgb-subpixel-antialiasing and hinting style set to "full. > (oops, Denis was first in replying :-) This is an autohinter bug, and unfortunately, we can't do anything about it. This bug should be fixed in FreeType instead (maybe their latest package fixed this?). Possible options for you are probably using hintstyle "medium" if you want to keep using the autohinter (not sure if that would work, but IIRC somebody "fixed" it that way). Or you could enable the bytecode interpreter in FreeType and get the only correct hinting of the font (the technology may be patented by Apple and therefor Fedora doesn't enable it by default) -- you may need to recompile FreeType to do that, or maybe there's an rpm somewhere. Please report the bug to the FreeType authors. Greetings Ben
OK, I'll post a link on their mailing list.
could someone please try wether the problem also happens with freetype-2.3.1 (as far as I know FC6 uses Freetype-2.2.1). The authors said it might have been fixed, but I don't have a development machine available and no way to install gcc+libs for at least a month. lg Clemens
hello?!
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