Font-Size Problem with liberation-fonts

[Christian Nolte]

On 09.07.2009 18:16, Yanko Kaneti wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 17:55 +0200, Christian Nolte wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> currently I am working on a website which should be displayed correctly
>> on Linux and  Windows using the "Arial"-Font. I've learned that
>> liberation-fonts are the way to go (because they are metric compatible),
>> and discovered a problem with a font-size below 12px. The fonts are
>> rendered with different spaces between the characters independent of the
>> browser, but seemingly dependent of the OS (so I blame the
>> liberation-fonts).
>>
>> I am not quite sure if there are patent restriction or something else,
>> which prevents liberation-fonts to be exact clones, so it would be nice
>> if someone of you could tell me if this is expected behaviour, or a bug:
>>
>> Here are some screenshots of the browsers and OS combinations I have tested:
>>
>> ftp://velian.dyndns.org/pub/nolte/liberation-fonts/ie7-windows.png
>> ftp://velian.dyndns.org/pub/nolte/liberation-fonts/ff-3.5-windows.png
>> ftp://velian.dyndns.org/pub/nolte/liberation-fonts/ff-3.0.11-linux.png
>>
>> This is the testbed:
>> ftp://velian.dyndns.org/pub/nolte/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-test.html
>>
>> I have only tested this with font-sizes of 12px, 11px and 10px. Below
>> 12px liberation-fonts puts too much spaces between the characters, so
>> that 10px with liberation-fonts is equal to 11px Arial on Windows.
>>
>> BTW I am currently using liberation-fonts-1.04-1.fc9.noarch. But the
>> problem is visible on a F11-box too.
>
> See Bug 503430 - Incorrect Kerning in some applications
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503430

Thanks, Yanko for this hint!

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