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[Adolfo Jayme <fitoschido@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Package changed: ttf-dejavu (Ubuntu) => fonts-dejavu (Ubuntu)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/320828

Title:
  DejaVu / Pango / fontconfig problem with hinting of DejaVu Serif 10pt
  font

Status in fonts-dejavu package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  GtkTextView / Pango / fontconfig are rendering DejaVu Serif 10pt
  strangely. Characters in this font should go nicely beside DejaVu Sans
  10pt and DejaVu Sans Mono 10pt quite nicely on the same line, but the
  Serif is rendering funny.

  Only at 10pt. These three fonts at 12pt are all rendering correctly
  alongside each other (9pt works too, interestingly).

  You can perhaps see this problem by doing:

  $ pango-view --font="DejaVu Sans Mono, 10" README  &
  $ pango-view --font="DejaVu Sans 10" README  &
  $ pango-view --font="DejaVu Serif 10" README  &

  where README is some large textfile. You'll see that the first two are
  nicely aligned, but that the characters in the Serif font are much
  smaller (they seem to be about 9pt, actually) although the line hights
  are correctly consistent in all three.

  I'm not really in a rush to blame ttf-dejavu to be honest. Sitting
  with Carl Worth and Keith Packard a few hours ago, we did

  $ fc-match -v "DejaVu Serif Book-10"

  and got what looked to be correct numbers. That said, Ubuntu Jaunty's
  version of DejaVu is 2.25, and the Gentoo developer who just tried my
  example code and the `pango-view` commands above has 2.28 available to
  him and he could not observe the problem.

  If you want to see it for yourself in my use case, you could grab
  bzr://research.operationaldynamics.com/bzr/java-gnome/hackers/andrew
  /bug-font-size/ and having built it, run

  $ java -classpath tmp/gtk-4.0.jar:tmp/tests/ FontHeights

  to avoid you having to do that, I've got three screenshots for you:
  one of it working at 12pt, and a second of it being busted at 10pt.

  AfC

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