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Summary: Hinting on 'cent' glyph in italic fonts broken
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Summary: Hinting on 'cent' glyph in italic fonts broken Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: low Component: liberation-fonts AssignedTo: psatpute@redhat.com ReportedBy: cody@zone38.net QAContact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: petersen@redhat.com, fonts-bugs@lists.fedoraproject.org, psatpute@redhat.com, i18n-bugs@lists.fedoraproject.org Classification: Fedora
Created an attachment (id=436160) --> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=436160) Screenshot of the cent glyph as displayed in OpenOffice.
Description of problem: The character 'cent' (¢) has been modified in Liberation Mono and Liberation Sans without regenerating hints, as has already been discussed in bug 474522.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.06.0.20100721
How reproducible: Consistently, as long as bytecode hinting has been turned on.
Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use a version of Freetype with bytecode hinting enabled. 2. Make sure that hinting is set to 'full' in your window manager's appearance preferences. 3. Enter the character ¢ (U+00A2) in an application such as OpenOffice. 4. Set the font to Liberation Sans Italic or Liberation Mono Italic.
Actual results: The cent sign looks correct.
Expected results: The cent sign is warped beyond recognition.
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--- Comment #1 from Cody Boisclair cody@zone38.net 2010-08-02 21:30:28 EDT --- I've been playing around with the font, and it's actually even more complicated than it seemed at first. It's not merely a matter of regenerating instructions; that has, in fact, been done. The problem is that FontForge's auto-instructions conflict with the global instructions which were manually coded by Ascender; the glyph looks slightly better removing instructions entirely.
Would it be better to revert to the 1.03 version of the cent glyph (no cross-bar)? Or just leave the glyph unhinted?
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--- Comment #2 from Cody Boisclair cody@zone38.net 2010-08-02 21:36:08 EDT --- The other alternative, of course, is to find a contributor who actually has knowledge of bytecode hinting. I'd fix it myself, except I don't know the slightest thing about TrueType hinting myself.
Anyone here have any knowledge of TrueType instructions who might be able to fix this? (DejaVu contributors, perhaps?)
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--- Comment #3 from Pravin Satpute psatpute@redhat.com 2010-08-04 04:16:53 EDT --- yes, hinting is really presently major thing for liberation there are few more bugs open for hinting
see #591556
will discuss this in tomorrow fedora i18n meeting
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Pravin Satpute psatpute@redhat.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED
--- Comment #4 from Pravin Satpute psatpute@redhat.com 2012-02-09 03:42:53 EST --- Removed hinting instruction for cent glyph for now in upstream release 1.07.2
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Fedora Update System updates@fedoraproject.org changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |MODIFIED
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--- Comment #5 from Fedora Update System updates@fedoraproject.org 2012-02-09 03:44:47 EST --- liberation-fonts-1.07.2-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/liberation-fonts-1.07.2-1.fc16
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Fedora Update System updates@fedoraproject.org changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|MODIFIED |ON_QA
--- Comment #6 from Fedora Update System updates@fedoraproject.org 2012-02-09 19:55:38 EST --- Package liberation-fonts-1.07.2-1.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing liberation-fonts-1.07.2-1.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-1501/liberation-fonts-1.... then log in and leave karma (feedback).
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--- Comment #7 from Fedora Update System updates@fedoraproject.org 2012-02-13 11:03:43 EST --- liberation-fonts-1.07.2-2.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/liberation-fonts-1.07.2-2.fc16
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Fedora Update System updates@fedoraproject.org changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ON_QA |CLOSED Fixed In Version| |liberation-fonts-1.07.2-2.f | |c16 Resolution| |ERRATA Last Closed| |2012-03-06 14:38:32
--- Comment #8 from Fedora Update System updates@fedoraproject.org 2012-03-06 14:38:32 EST --- liberation-fonts-1.07.2-2.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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