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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:vstuart.foote@utsa.edu" title="V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote@utsa.edu>"> <span class="fn">V Stuart Foote</span></a>
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title="RESOLVED DUPLICATE - When I write a text in Writer and use the font Tahoma, then some letters stick together."
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133273">bug 133273</a>
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="RESOLVED DUPLICATE - When I write a text in Writer and use the font Tahoma, then some letters stick together."
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133273#c17">Comment # 17</a>
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title="RESOLVED DUPLICATE - When I write a text in Writer and use the font Tahoma, then some letters stick together."
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133273">bug 133273</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:vstuart.foote@utsa.edu" title="V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote@utsa.edu>"> <span class="fn">V Stuart Foote</span></a>
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<pre>So don't use the Tahoma font where deficiencies (gpos, kern tables) and hinting
issues make for bad kerning and unreliable font to use on a GTK3 (pango
harfbuzz) based DE.
You could drop back and try the 'gen' backend, but not clear that would improve
the kerning with your os/DE
At some point implementation of floating point positioning on VCL canvas for
<a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Use floating point for glyph positioning in VCL"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=103322">bug 103322</a> would allow sub-pixel rendering, until then fonts must render
without benefit of horizontal hinting.
=-ref-=
<a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/463">https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/463</a>
<a href="https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/2394">https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/2394</a>
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW - VIEWING: Kerning issues with certain fonts like Arial"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=88991">bug 88991</a> ***</pre>
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[<a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Use floating point for glyph positioning in VCL"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103322">Bug 103322</a>] Use floating point for glyph positioning in VCL
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