[Bug 648350] New: Proper Bold for Lohit Devanagari

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Summary: Proper Bold for Lohit Devanagari

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Summary: Proper Bold for Lohit Devanagari
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: lohit-devanagari-fonts
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
         QAContact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail],
                    [e-mail], [e-mail]
    Classification: Fedora

Created attachment 456789
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Picture showing the bold and regular typeface

Description of problem:
The existing font provided Lohit Devangari only contains the regular version.
It does not contain the bold version. When the computer generates bold using
the regular font, and the results are ugly. The siro-rekha is broken and many
other stuffs are also broken.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:
Exactly reproducible

Steps to Reproduce:
1.See any hindi/nepali/marathi/sanskrit pages in firefox with bold text
2. type devanagari text in openoffice and bold it

Actual results:
The a broken lohit devanagari font is displayed.

Expected results:
A well maintained bold should be shown.

Additional info:
The typographic value is lost when bold is used though it is still readable.

[Bug 648350] Proper Bold for Lohit Devanagari

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--- Comment #1 from Ujjwol  2010-11-01 00:46:26 EDT ---
The same applies to Samyak Devanagari as well.

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--- Comment #2 from A S Alam  2010-11-01 02:02:28 EDT ---
lohit-devanagari-fonts-2.4.3-7.fc15.noarch.rpm

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--- Comment #3 from Pravin Satpute  2010-11-01 04:06:39 EDT ---
hmm, this looks like major problem
i will fix this one.

thanks for reporting this

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--- Comment #4 from Ujjwol  2010-11-01 05:03:30 EDT ---
You are welcome.

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--- Comment #5 from [e-mail] 2011-12-14 04:40:17 EST ---
If possible can I know about the progress with this issue?

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--- Comment #6 from Pravin Satpute  2011-12-14 12:32:52 EST ---
Not yet much progress on this, i tried few quick solution by changing shapes
inside fonts but not worked well.

So now options are:
1) Try some other tweaking in Lohit.
2) Design Lohit Devanagari Bold

Instead of dependency of auto bold algorithm, in long term it will be good to
have Lohit Bold so such problems will not occur.

Same is followed in other fonts i.e. Liberations, Dejavu as well.

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          Component|lohit-devanagari-fonts      |freetype
         AssignedTo|[e-mail]         |[e-mail]

--- Comment #7 from Pravin Satpute  2012-02-25 09:07:32 EST ---
Yesterday while checking this i found auto bold works fine for Lohit in
Windows.

While discussion on freetype devel list looks like this is problem from
freetype autobold side.

moving to freetype

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--- Comment #10 from Pravin Satpute  ---
*** Bug 963648 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Bug 648350] Proper Bold for Lohit Devanagari

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--- Comment #11 from Pravin Satpute  ---
While observing i found that whenever we apply some matra (reph, e-matra) it
issue happens. It means we might need some fixes from font size.

Moving to Lohit.

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--- Comment #13 from Pravin Satpute  ---
Created attachment 1098594
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Image showing improved rendering

- Recently we have done Lohit 2 development. Lohit now has Latin shapes and we
also using ttfautohint.
- Sametime here has been improvement in Freetype as well from autoemboling.

These improvements has fixed the issue.
lohit-devanagari-fonts-2.95.2-1.fc23.noarch
freetype-2.6.0-3.fc23.x86_64
libreoffice-writer-5.0.3.1-1.fc23.x86_64

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--- Comment #14 from Pravin Satpute  ---
Closing. Feel free to reopen if any issue.
Ideally we should have Bold and other weights for Lohit but we dont have
resource for preparing Bold for Lohit.