Re: GNUstep Code Freeze

[Eric Wasylishen]

I committed a fix. Please test both on-screen display, and the result of saving 
a PDF from Ink (print dialog->save button->foo.pdf). Both work for me with the 
font that was previously causing problems (DejaVu Sans - probably many others 
too).

Eric

On 2012-01-23, at 2:24 PM, Eric Wasylishen wrote:

> I actually narrowed it down and have a fix coming soon. This started when we 
> switched to the "modern" cairo surface I wrote. The bug is in the way 
> CairoFontInfo.m doesn't deal with the hinting settings of cairo_font_info_t.
> 
> Basically, it creates a default font options object and uses that to make 
> measurements of the glyphs. But, when it comes time to draw text with that 
> font on a xlib surface, which defaults to having hinting enabled, cairo draws 
> with hinting - so we have metrics calculated with no hinting, but drawing 
> with hinting, and get the resulting mess.
> 
> Eric
> 
> On 2012-01-23, at 1:55 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> 
>> I would start with checking the screen resolution code as this seems to only 
>> affect monitors with strange geometry.
>> 
>> Sebastian, could you try to re-enable the old code in the method 
>> resolutionForScreen: (XGServerWindow.m) and see whether this make any 
>> difference? Could you also report the result of the command
>> xdpyinfo | grep -B2 resolution
>> on a monitor where this problem exists?
>> 
>> Fred
>> 
>> On 23.01.2012 20:33, Eric Wasylishen wrote:
>>> I just tested the last release (2011-04-14) of base/gui/back, and it
>>> looks like the text overlapping does not occur there. My test case is
>>> pasting a paragraph of text into Ink and setting the font to "DejaVu
>>> Sans". I'll try bisecting to find the revision that introduced the
>>> bug, and maybe it will be a quick fix.
>>> 
>>> Eric
>>> 
>>> On 2012-01-23, at 3:10 AM, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Fred Kiefer<address@hidden>  wrote:
>>>>> In order to get a full GNUstep release out before FOSDEM, that is
>>>>> at least base/gui/back, maybe also make, Richard, Eric and I have
>>>>> decided to put a code freeze for these libraries in place. Only
>>>>> strict bug fixes should go into the code over the next week (or
>>>>> maybe a bit longer) and everybody should try to find time to test
>>>>> the current code on as many different machines as possible.
>>>>> 
>>>>> There hasn't been a gui release in almost a year and now seems as
>>>>> good a time as ever. Feel free to report any bugs you find on the
>>>>> mailing list or even better in the bug tracker on Savannah.
>>>> 
>>>> I hope this strange font drawing problem I've seen, and also
>>>> Riccardo and Philippe have seen will also get fixed?
>> 
>> 
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