290975 - Font height is not even for font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Wesley Haines]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-3

On the attached test-case, the font glyphs are not rendering properly. The "L"
is larger than everything, and the "B" is too small. Tap CTRL++ to increase the
font size a bit and it looks fine.
The CSS is set to:
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;

Resolution, set in the GNOME font settings, is 96 dpi.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:



Expected Results:  
The height of the font glyphs should be equal (see attached testcase), such as
in the first "Bold" word after you increase the text size of the page.

Comment 1

[Wesley Haines]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Wesley Haines]

Attachment: Screenshot of problem

Comment 3

[dolphinling]

I'm seeing this too, 1.0.3 and trunk. Rounding problem, perhaps? I don't see it
in, e.g., gedit, but that doesn't seem to use pixels for font sizes.

Comment 4

[dolphinling]

Err... on closer inspection, I'm NOT seeing this, it was an optical illusion.

Comment 5

[Felix Miata]

WFM in Firefox 1.5rc2 in FC4 1024x768 96 DPI with 149,752 byte 25 Jun 2002 verdana.ttf file.

Wesley, what filesize and timestamp are on your verdana.ttf file? An older, likely broken, version of a smaller file size could be your problem.

Comment 6

[Wesley Haines]

(In reply to comment #5)
> WFM in Firefox 1.5rc2 in FC4 1024x768 96 DPI with 149,752 byte 25 Jun 2002
> verdana.ttf file.

I thought I had closed this bug; v1.5rc2 works for me as well. Closing...

> 
> Wesley, what filesize and timestamp are on your verdana.ttf file? An older,
> likely broken, version of a smaller file size could be your problem.

# ll /usr/share/fonts/verdana*
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 136032 Jun 17  2002 /usr/share/fonts/verdanab.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 154264 Jun 17  2002 /usr/share/fonts/verdanai.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 139640 Jun 17  2002 /usr/share/fonts/verdana.ttf

Thanks!

Comment 7

[Felix Miata]

The 139,640 byte verdana.ttf file dates back to Windows 98, while the 149,752 byte verdana.ttf file was introduced with Windows XP. 

Verified.