[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 17200] tilde '~' becomes a straight line at small font sizes

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17200





--- Comment #4 from James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com>  2008-08-23 08:58:50 PST ---
Using (freetype built from CVS, dejavu from svn):

ftview -r 96 5 /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/*ttf

I can see the bug in:

Sans ExtraLight, Oblique, Book
Mono Bold, Oblique, Book, Book Oblique
Serif Book

Leaving off the -r 96 shows that 5pt at 96 dpi is 7 px/em.

Most ttf fonts seem to include a pointer to ignore the instructions at
less than 8 px/em or so (the GASP table, right?).  That would deal with
this on doze, at least.

Frankly, the font is barely legible at all at 7 px/em (he says, who used
to use 75dpi/lutRS10.pcf as his xterm/emacs font, back in the 80s and 90s;
young eyes do have their perks).  So I don't know how critical it is.

But the GASP entry (assuming I’m remembering the right table) couldn't hurt.


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