https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1433628
Bug ID: 1433628
Summary: First line of pixels chopped off in Chromium/Chrome
when liberation-fonts built with fontforge > 20150430
Product: Fedora
Version: 25
Component: liberation-fonts
Assignee: psatpute(a)redhat.com
Reporter: chillermillerlong(a)hotmail.com
QA Contact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
CC: fonts-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
i18n-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
petersen(a)redhat.com, psatpute(a)redhat.com
Description of problem:
The current liberation-fonts package is built by fontforge 20160404 and results
in the top of the fonts being chopped off in some pages in Chrome/Chromium.
For example, with this page:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/600h4f/wine_24_released/
When built with fontforge 20160404:
http://i.imgur.com/kO2H3Hw.png
When built with fontforge 20150430:
http://i.imgur.com/IQmu5o3.png
Notice how the first line of pixels is getting chopped off.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
liberation-fonts-common-1.07.4-7.fc24.noarch
liberation-mono-fonts-1.07.4-7.fc24.noarch
liberation-sans-fonts-1.07.4-7.fc24.noarch
liberation-serif-fonts-1.07.4-7.fc24.noarch
fontforge-20160404-5.fc25.x86_64
Additional info:
I did a git bisect and found that this is the commit in fontforge that
introduced the issue.
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[chenxiaolong@cxl-fedora25vm fontforge]$ git bisect bad
e870019c2602d50eb00793e979f3e11bcc71d6cf is the first bad commit
commit e870019c2602d50eb00793e979f3e11bcc71d6cf
Author: Frédéric Wang <fred.wang(a)free.fr>
Date: Wed May 13 08:03:13 2015 +0200
Fix read/write of bits USE_TYPO_METRICS and WWS for OS2 version < 4
:040000 040000 7032ea971c1d084ab8a038b4a80d9092e53a8519
eb11e4b5a69718ad94d8dbfc414e7b2a944548d3 M fontforge
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https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/commit/e870019c2602d50eb00793e979f...
Is this something that can be fixed without affecting/breaking other fonts?
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