[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#568857: Bug#568857: using gWaterfall to show the problem (was: Linux Libertine -- seems to work here)

[Rogério Brito]

Hi there.

On May 14 2010, Ben Finney wrote:
> =====
> $ dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package}: ${Version}\n' ttf-linux-libertine iceweasel libpango1.0-0
> iceweasel: 3.5.9-3
> libpango1.0-0: 1.28.0-1
> ttf-linux-libertine: 4.4.1-4
> =====

No differences here, aside from the fact that I am using experimental's
version of iceweasel, but as you are seeing the problem with other
programs leads us to know that the problem isn't exactly with iceweasel.

I don't see this bug you're referring to, even forcing iceweasel to use
"Linux Libertine O".

> So I've installed ‘gwaterfall’ to ensure I'm looking at the actual
> font.

Right.

> In that program I can select “Linux Libertine O C” (the only
> entry I have for the Linux Libertine font),

Very wrong. I just installed gwaterfall and I can see all the fonts
provided:

* Linux Biolinum O
* Linux Libertine O
* Linux Libertine O C

Can you reproduce this bug with, say, fontforge's fontimage command? Say:

,----
| fontimage /usr/share/fonts/truetype/linux-libertine/LinLibertineC_Re.ttf
`----

> I've attached to this message another screen shot, of the ‘gwaterfall’
> program displaying the font, and circling in red the areas I'm
> referring to.  You can see, by zooming in, that the characters are
> misaligned with each other at many font sizes.

I can't reproduce what you are seeing, but I see that you are
(possibly?)  using GNOME and I use a barebones environment with only
fluxbox and nothing else. Can you still reproduce this with no
gnome-settings-daemon & Co. running?


Regards,

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