47971 - Font Spacing W/Truetype fonts on XFree 4.0 M16 & M17

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 39553

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[John Simmons]

On my system there seems to eb a consistent problem displaying these fonts with
both the new netscape PR2, M16 and M17, that wasn't present in M15, or NS PR1.

I'm not sure wether it's the type of fonts I have installed, but NS PR1 and M15
didn't have this problem.
The spacing between the letters looks as if an extra space has been added
between the letters.
I use a default 96dpi display, I changed the dpi to several differnt values to
test but wit hthe same result only larger or smaller.

This also effects the rendering of fonts on pages, specifically those with CSS.

Comment 1

[John Simmons]

Attachment: Shows font spacing of a page + preferences (sorry bit big didn't edit it)

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

This problem was partly discussed in bug 39553, and i'm quite sure it's because
your fonts.scale file mention charcell versions of tt fonts before the standard
iso 8859-1 fonts. It turns out ttmkfdir writes fonts.scale in reverse(!). This
cause problems in mozilla, since Tahoma, the font in question, contains a bogus
"character cell" font.

I added a description of the problem + full cure/walkthrough found at
http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html#ttf
(also see the following part about "fuzzy fonts in netscape")

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

Marking this dup of bug 39553
Please add a comment here if you think that is wrong.

There are samples of fonts.scale etc. at the URL i mentioned. If you run into
problems, feel free to email me.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39553 ***

Comment 4

[tenthumbs]

Just a note that, from a bash shell, you can say something like:
  NS_FONT_DEBUG=3 ./mozilla
and Mozilla will print a lot about which fonts it is loading.

Comment 5

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

vrfy