[Bug 1156935] Re: Regression: improper kerning of text

[Steve Langasek]

This appears to be partially fixed upstream in freetype 2.4.12, which is
now in saucy.  In the libreoffice sample document, the only kerning
issue that remains is between the v and e; the others all look correct
now.

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Title:
  Regression: improper kerning of text

Status in “freetype” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Sometime during the 13.04 cycle (early March?), tracking/kerning broke
  for some characters in the Ubuntu font. I've attached a screenshot
  from the titlebar of Thunderbird - notice the following:

  1) in 'ubuntu-recovery' from the top row, notice the extra space between 're' and 'covery'
  2) in 'ubuntu-recovery' from the top row, notice the missing whitespace between 'c' and 'o'
  3) in 'Canonical' from the top row, notice the missing whitespace between 'c' and 'a'

  The attached screenshot is for Thunderbird, but I've observed the same
  bug in pidgin and LibreOffice in 13.04.

  To reproduce:
  1) Open a new Libreoffice document
  2) Set the font to Ubuntu, 11pt, bold
  3) Type in the strings "recovery" and "Canonical"

  Expected results:
  Characters are kerned properly

  Actual results:
  Characters are not kerned properly

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: ttf-ubuntu-font-family 0.80-0ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-13.22-generic 3.8.3
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-13-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.9.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Mar 18 20:31:42 2013
  Dependencies:
   
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-09-17 (913 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-font-family-sources
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-25 (52 days ago)

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