[Bug 1839471] New: OpenType variant of Lucida Typewriter has extra spacing around characters
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Bug ID: 1839471 Summary: OpenType variant of Lucida Typewriter has extra spacing around characters Product: Fedora Version: 32 Status: NEW Component: bitmap-fonts Assignee: psatpute@redhat.com Reporter: tsmetana@redhat.com QA Contact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: fonts-bugs@lists.fedoraproject.org, petersen@redhat.com, pnemade@redhat.com, psatpute@redhat.com, pwu@redhat.com Target Milestone: --- Classification: Fedora
Created attachment 1691497 --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1691497&action=edit Screenshot of the terminal in Fedora 32
Description of problem: The OpenType version of Lucida Typewriter fonts has extra spacing around every character making it quite unusable.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bitmap-lucida-typewriter-opentype-fonts-0.3-33.fc32 xfce4-terminal-0.8.9.1-2.fc32
How reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install bitmap-lucida-typewriter-opentype-fonts 2. Select the "LucidaTypewriter Sans" for the termina font
Actual results: There's extra spacing around the characters.
Expected results: The font looks the same as on Fedora 30
Additional info: I assume the automatic conversion from the PCF fonts doesn't work completely well. It's definitely better than in F31 (see bug #1767384) but not good yet.
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--- Comment #2 from Peng Wu pwu@redhat.com --- Upstream URL: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/fonttosfnt/-/merge_requests/7
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Jan Pazdziora jpazdziora@redhat.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jpazdziora@redhat.com
--- Comment #3 from Jan Pazdziora jpazdziora@redhat.com --- Based on the help from Peng Wu in bug 1753295, I've now rebuilt bitmap-fonts with fonttosfnt with that merge request applied and with .spec change from bug 1753295 comment 109 into https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/adelton/fedora-fixes/ and now LucidaTypewriter Sans 9 from bitmap-lucida-typewriter-opentype-fonts-0.3-35.ad1.fc32.noarch in xfce4-terminal under pango-1.44.7-2.fc32.x86_64 is displayed exactly like the old bitmap font under pango-1.43.0-4.fc30.x86_64.
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--- Comment #4 from Tomas Smetana tsmetana@redhat.com --- (In reply to Jan Pazdziora from comment #3)
Based on the help from Peng Wu in bug 1753295, I've now rebuilt bitmap-fonts with fonttosfnt with that merge request applied and with .spec change from bug 1753295 comment 109 into https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/adelton/fedora-fixes/ and now LucidaTypewriter Sans 9 from bitmap-lucida-typewriter-opentype-fonts-0.3-35.ad1.fc32.noarch in xfce4-terminal under pango-1.44.7-2.fc32.x86_64 is displayed exactly like the old bitmap font under pango-1.43.0-4.fc30.x86_64.
Awesome. I confess I converted the one variant I cared about using FontForge some time ago with not so great but slightly better result: my font had actually smaller line-spacing than the original (no matter what I did with ascent / descent / line gap seemed to have an effect), but that could be worked around by setting line spacing in the terminal. I'll test your font. Thanks for the update.
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--- Comment #5 from Jan Pazdziora jpazdziora@redhat.com --- It's actually a pity xfce4-terminal does not allow spacing < 1 -- that would have given people more options for workarounds.
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--- Comment #6 from Tomas Smetana tsmetana@redhat.com --- Jan's LucidaTypewriter looks fine on my terminal and other applications as well.
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Ben Cotton bcotton@redhat.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CLOSED Resolution|--- |EOL Last Closed| |2021-05-25 16:19:26
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