[Fontconfig] rendered texts are overlaping

Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz arekm at maven.pl
Mon Oct 13 03:53:28 PDT 2014


Hello.

I'm trying to figure out why some fonts when being in use cause texts being 
overlaped. Often this happens with national characters.

Example, opening
http://fzs.sve-mo.ba/sites/default/files/dokumenti-vijesti/sample.pdf
in internal google-chrome 38 pdf viewer causes some text being rendered one on 
another, screenshots:
http://ixion.pld-linux.org/~arekm/font-overlap1.jpg
http://ixion.pld-linux.org/~arekm/font-overlap2.jpg

What could be reason for such behaviour? I have little knowledge in the area, 
so any information/hint is welcome, so I could experiment and narrow down 
possibilities.

fontconfig 2.11.1
freetype 2.5.3

fonts-TTF-AnonymousPro-1.002-1.noarch
fonts-TTF-Google-noto-sans-20141001-0.1.noarch
fonts-TTF-Google-noto-sans-symbols-20141001-0.1.noarch
fonts-TTF-Google-noto-serif-20141001-0.1.noarch
fonts-TTF-OpenSymbol-3.6.1.2-3.noarch
terminus-font-X11-4.38-2.noarch
xorg-font-encodings-1.0.4-1.noarch
xorg-font-font-alias-1.0.3-2.noarch
xorg-font-font-cursor-misc-1.0.3-2.noarch
xorg-font-font-misc-misc-1.1.2-2.noarch
xorg-font-font-misc-misc-base-1.1.2-2.noarch
xorg-font-font-mutt-misc-1.0.3-2.noarch
xorg-font-font-util-1.3.0-2.x86_64

Thanks,
-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )


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