Subject: Re: Font weirdness
From: David Schmitz (david@ecsd.com)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 10:28:33 CDT
Vlad Harchev wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>
>
>> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, David Schmitz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Martin Sevior wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> This is very interesting. The way Zoom works is to change the point size
>>>>> of fonts. It might be that some of your accented characters are not
>>>>> present at small font sizes but are at large font sizes. However that
>>>>> would not explain why the printing works. This part of the code has been
>>>>> under very heavy development recently. Can you check out a CVS version
>>>>> of Abi and see if the problem persists? Also can you tell us if "Insert
>>>>> Symbol" shows the accented characters correctly and if they get inserted
>>>>> correctly?
>>>>
>>>> To start off, this is all with the latest CVS version. I did an update
>>>> just before I fired off the original email as a precaution against
>>>> making much ado about nothing.
>>>>
>>>> The Insert Symbol give me the same funky characters where all the
>>>> special characters would be, but when I do an insert of them, they show
>>>> up correctly (at the high zoom/pt. size or when printing)
>>>> http://www.ecsd.com/~david/ins_dia.png
>>>>
>>>> At first, I thought it may be a badly hinted font, but in the Gnome Font
>>>> Selector, the glyphs show up nicely at small sizes
>>>> (http://www.ecsd.com/~david/gtk_font.png) and in gv.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This appears to be a bug in Vlad's new encodingclass. Can you have a look
>>> Vlad?
>>
>> I'm inspecting now. My current impression: I'm not sure that this strange
>> behaviour is due to (only) my changes. The only vital code for rendering that
>> my patch changed is gr_Graphics::remapGlyph() - but the changes are innocient
>> and can't cause this problem IMO.
>>
>> I can't reproduce any strange behaviour with any "funky" fonts I have now -
>> symbol and dingbats. Could you, David, reproduce it with these fonts (and
>> how)? If not, where I can get greek fonts to test with?
>
>
> David already told where to download them, sorry. Just tried to download
> from there - but both wget and ISP's squid tell that there is an error in
> server response - so I can't download anything. Is there any altrenative
> location?
>
> Best regards,
> -Vlad
I uploaded them to ecsd.com the URL's are
http://www.ecsd.com/~david/wgreek20.zip and
http://www.ecsd.com/~david/sfonts11.zip
The fonts of interest are sgm_____.* and grr_____.*
Hope this helps.
-- David Schmitz Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and taste. -- http://www.ecsd.com/~david
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