Better testing methods for Liberation Fonts?

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 14:47 +1000, Caius Carlos Chance a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> For the quality testing on liberation-fonts in the progress of full 
> source hosting on fedorahosted.org, I have performed some tests 
> mentioned in this bug:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444392
> 
> As the screenshots attached there, there are some horizontal 
> displacements on certain glyphs. I also manually tested in GIMP on the 
> PSD files which having two versions of font overlapping each other.
> 
> However, it might be excellent if any of you could provide some better 
> ideas on the testing?

IIRC Davide Viti of the Debian font team has a font regression suite. It
would be nice to package it and use it for all our font packages

http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/gtk-frontend/screenshots/

BTW your testing with OO.o is non-representative as it uses its own font
stack different from the one every other app uses. IIRC right now you
have GTK-style font rendering (pango...), QT-style font rendering (being
merged with the GTK one at f.d.o), and one-of-a-kind OO.o & java font
rendering.

Since you're going to be responsible for a highly visible font package
it might be a good idea to drop in one of freedesktop's text layout
summits http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/TextLayout to make contacts and
make some publicity around Liberation.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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