368913 - Characters in <svg:text> are missing when rendered incrementally

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Some characters in <svg:text> are missing when rendered incrementally.  This seems to be kinda random.  Space is left for the missing characters, but they are never rendered.

Also, the text's width isn't consistent.  This might be due to the missing characters or it might be a separate issue.

Tested with Mac (PPC), debug trunk build.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: testcase (text.svg)

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: serve-slowly.py

This python script makes it easier to test the bug.  Drop it and text.svg into a web server cgi-bin directory thing.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: screenshot

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

On trunk (Intel Mac), no characters are missing, but the width of the text still isn't consistent.  Some lines are one pixel longer than others.

Comment 5

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Tim: got any ideas what's going on here? Is this still a problem? I seem to have some recollection of something similar being fixed not too long ago.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

I still see the bug.  It's more subtle now, with just "re" and "ri" tending to be kerned incorrectly, but it's easy to see if you switch back and forth between text.svg and serve-slowly.py once they've both been rendered.

Comment 7

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

That sounds like a different bug that probably isn't specific to svg.

So marking this as WFM as i don't remember which bug it was fixed in.