Monospace fonts have too much space between glyphs
Bug #966654 reported by
Peter Hurley
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #972223: regression in gtk underlining rendering.
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freetype (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Monospace fonts in Ubuntu have traditionally had tight spacing between glyphs due to using fractional pixel sizes (through Pango).
Commit b0962ac3 in freetype upstream has introduced extra spacing between monospace glyphs by forcing integer scaling of text metrics.
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Attached is a quilt patch to revert the offending commit.