183685 - italic text is rendered at 20 degree angle with Xft

Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 179667

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Chris Brien]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021205
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021205

I'm using an xft-enabled build on source mage, and whenever mozilla renders
italic text, it is rendered at an angle. The first glyph is in the correct
place, the next is slightly up from the base line, the next further up, and so
on. It's as if the the italic-rendered block is rotated around the bottom-left
corner of the block.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Chris Brien]

Attachment: screenshot of welcome page

Here's the first screen I saw italics on. Note the text of "Congratulations"
and "please turn it on".

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is a bug in the particular freetype version you're using.... See bug 179667
comment 10

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 179667 ***

Comment 3

[Felix Miata]

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Comment 4

[Chris Brien]

Yep, not a mozilla bug, since I saw it with Kmail, too. And building the latest
freetype fixed it.