78253 - TrueType font widths calculated too small in X

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 59915

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Cory Dodt]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    2001040912

The rendering engine appears to be displaying TrueType fonts at width W and 
displaying them at width W*(1.2) approximately.  The result is that text 
overlaps at font-change boundaries, and at the screen boundary, truetype fonts 
spill off the right side, beyond the reach of the scrollbar.  This renders many 
pages completely unreadable.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure that you have truetype fonts configured and working.  The fonts I'm 
using were imported from Windows 2000.
2. Load http://galeon.sourceforge.net

Actual Results:  The text displays overlapping.  For example the word "some" 
and the link "screenshots" are rendered in the same horizontal location, so 
that the s's almost overlap.  On many pages this is completely unreadable.

Expected Results:  The page should contain readable text.

At first I thought it was just the Arial font as described in <a href 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46415>bug 46415</a>.  However, I 
can clearly see that it's not the same thing, because I actually have the 
ult1mo fonts installed as well; when I remove my TrueType fonts, I can see the 
tiny, ugly ult1mo fonts instead.  So I tried aliasing out my Arial fonts to 
Georgia fonts; I got overlapping Georgia instead of overlapping Arial.

This doesn't happen in Windows 2000 with build id 20010215 and the same fonts.

Comment 1

[Cory Dodt]

Attachment: This is what it looks like

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Cory Dodt, what version of X are you using?  Are you using a font server?  There
are already some bugs along these lines reported about mozilla and XFree 4.0.3
(note that other versions of XFree work correctly).

Comment 3

[Cory Dodt]

XFree 4.0.3, with xfs.  I have both the type1 and the freetype font modules
loading. Damn, what bug number is that?

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

bug 76625 is the one I recalled

Comment 5

[Cory Dodt]

Never mind I finally found it myself: bug 59915. Closing as dupe. Looking at the
screenshot that was posted there, this is definitely the same problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59915 ***

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Cory, thanks!  Verifying.