640886 - Inter-character spacing too narrow with Bitstream Vera Sans, resulting in Bold glyphs touching each other

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tejun Heo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

I configured Bitstream Vera Sans w/o allowing web pages to use other fonts; unfortunately, the inter character spacing becomes quite narrow when capital characters are involved.  Especially with bold characters, they end up touching each other which seems very wrong.  I'll attach the screenshots.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit web pages with bold capital characters.
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Actual Results:  
Glyphs for bold capital characters are put too close to and end up touching each other.

Expected Results:  
They should maintain some separation.

Comment 1

[Tejun Heo]

Attachment: Glyphs touching each other.