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  1. Bug #1001033
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 1001033

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Weeble (clockworksaint) wrote :

Okay, I built libfreetype from their git repo, installed it to /usr/local and reran my test:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/ python testcase.py
freefont-20090104-FreeMono.ttf at pixel size 16, advances:
   10 for 95 characters: !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~

freefont-20090104-FreeMono.ttf at pixel size 100, advances:
   60 for 95 characters: !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~

freefont-20090104-FreeMono.ttf at pixel size 200, advances:
   120 for 95 characters: !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~

freefont-20090104-FreeMono.ttf at pixel size 300, advances:
   180 for 95 characters: !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~

freefont-20100919-FreeMono.ttf at pixel size 16, advances:
   9 for 23 characters: #*+;IJPSTUY[]deilmq{|}~
   10 for 71 characters: !"$%&'(),-./0123456789:<=>?@ABCDEFGHKLMNOQRVWXZ\^_`abcfghjknoprtuvwxyz
   11 for 1 characters: s

freefont-20100919-FreeMono.ttf at pixel size 100, advances:
   59 for 11 characters: $?IS^fjrsuz
   60 for 80 characters: !"#&'()*+,-/0123456789;<=>@ABCDEFGJKLMNOPQRTUVWXYZ[\]_`abcdeghiklmnopqtvwxy{|}~
   61 for 4 characters: %.:H

freefont-20100919-FreeMono.ttf at pixel size 200, advances:
   120 for 71 characters: !"%&'(),.0123456789:;<=>@ABCDEFHJMNPRTUVWXYZ[]_`abcdefhjkmopqrtuvwyz{|
   121 for 13 characters: $*/?GIKL\^gns
   119 for 11 characters: #+-OQSilx}~

freefont-20100919-FreeMono.ttf at pixel size 300, advances:
   179 for 4 characters: =]xy
   180 for 77 characters: !"$&'()*,./0123456789:;<>?@BCDEFGIJKLMNOPQRUVWXYZ[\^_`abcdefghkmnqrstuvwz{|}
   181 for 14 characters: #%+-AHSTijlop~

This does indeed show what Sam observed: the two versions of FreeMono.ttf show different advances for some characters. So the weird behaviour only materializes with a recent version of FreeType and a specific version of FreeMono.ttf. Does that help us figure out what's happening and whether there's actually a bug somewhere?