[Bug 707007] New: Hershey fonts broken in WYSIWYG text and graphic editing programs (scribus, abiword)

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Summary: Hershey fonts broken in WYSIWYG text and graphic editing programs (scribus, abiword)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707007

           Summary: Hershey fonts broken in WYSIWYG text and graphic
                    editing programs (scribus, abiword)
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 14
          Platform: Unspecified
        OS/Version: Unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: unspecified
          Priority: unspecified
         Component: ghostscript-fonts
        AssignedTo: twaugh at redhat.com
        ReportedBy: martin at laptop.org
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: twaugh at redhat.com, fonts-bugs at lists.fedoraproject.org
    Classification: Fedora
      Story Points: ---


Description of problem:

Hershey fonts have problems in WYSIWYG text editing programs and image
manipulation programs.

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

ghostscript-fonts-5.50-23.fc12.noarch


How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Abiword
2.Select any of the Hershey fonts
3.Write in your document

- Font is unreadable
- Pressing enter does not create a newline

Other repro:

1. groupinstall Sugar Desktop
2. Login to Sugar Desktop
3. Start the 'Paint' (oficina) activity
4. Activate the text tool
5. Select hershey font
6. Click on canvas and type

- Font is unreadable
- Writing is not immediate on each keystroke -- displays only after clicking
elsewhere on the canvas.

See also 

* http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/issues/detail?id=11
* http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6720240
* blacklisted in old fontconfig http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-
 cvs-commits/2005-October/msg00806.html
* OpenOffice blacklists them - but they appear on Abiword
* Scribus also has issues
http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2010-November/040145.html

Tracked by OLPC as http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10902

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