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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: emacs23 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Fonts in emacs look different than in gedit or gnome-terminal

Status in emacs23 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The same scalable font looks different in emacs than in gedit or
  gnome-terminal.

  Attached are screenshots of 1) gedit with the Monospace 8 font and 2)
  emacs with the same font. Although each glyph rendering is nearly
  identical (you can zoom in with gimp), the emacs character spacing is
  wider (more space between glyphs).

  When gedit renders text, the font size is scaled to the font library's
  dpi (the scaling is done by the pango library). Xft is typically set
  to 96 dpi resulting in a 1.3333 scale factor; so a font size of 8
  becomes 10.666667.

  Although a similiar scaling approach is employed by emacs, because the
  emacs font driver interface (which emacs uses to abstract the platform
  for rendering text) defines an *integer* pixelsize parameter, the same
  font size of 8 becomes 11 (emacs rounds the font size up). This
  accounts for the slightly exaggerated glyph spacing.

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