Re: [Devel] Help me understand this... I'm loosing my sanity. Please.

[Billy Biggs]

Vincent Caron (address@hidden):

> This is a Type1 font, so the TrueType byte code interpreter does not
> come in the way. It can be an hinting error in the font itself (is
> RedHat using an updated font file ? Here it is n021003l.pfb). It maybe
> an Xft configuration issue, RedHat can disable hinting for specific
> fonts at given sizes when it proves to improve rendering quality. Etc
> ...

  On my debian system the font exists as a pfb/afm in the
xfonts-scalable package, and as a ttf in the ttf-xfree86-nonfree
package.  I used the ftstring and ftview utilities from the
freetype2-demos package to reproduce the problem, as well as 'KWrite'.

  -Billy