[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 20611] Cursive overlap too small

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20611





--- Comment #2 from Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh at gmail.com>  2009-03-12 15:56:51 PST ---
Yes, turning off autohinting solves the problem, but I don't think this is
really an option. There would be systems with the autohinting on, and the gap
would show. (I just turned it back on, to avoid the grayish feeling of text on
my desktop which makes things unreadable.)

Also, I think Microsoft is quite aware that hinting would solve the problem.
They recommend all fonts to be hinted (or embed bitmaps) anyway. But since
there is no mention of hinting on the page, I wonder if there are cases that
even proper hinting can't solve the problem. Microsoft's own Arabic fonts have
both the hinting and the overlap.

Finally, I think your reasoning calls for no overlaps at all, not 20 units on
each side.


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