Issue 10803 - Three fonts display improperly
Summary: Three fonts display improperly
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 10843
Alias: None
Product: porting
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.1
Hardware: Mac Mac OS X, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: OOo 1.0.3
Assignee: fa
QA Contact: issues@porting
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Reported: 2003-01-20 19:27 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2004-03-25 07:52 UTC (History)
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Description Unknown 2003-01-20 19:27:36 UTC 
The fonts are: 
Lucida Grande
OpenSymbol
Zapf Dingbats

When typing in Lucida Grande, all the characters appear in the same position rendering the text unreadable.  On printing the document, most of the typed Lucida Grande characters appear as hollow rectangles.

--JK
Comment 1 Martin Hollmichel 2003-01-21 16:53:43 UTC 
mh->OPENSTEP: is this Mac specific ?
Comment 2 ed 2003-01-25 23:52:45 UTC 
From my interactions with the GSL project, my understanding is that OpenOffice.org is incompatible with versions of freetype newer then 2.0.5, resulting in kerning information being lost for some truetype fonts.  This is known to affect OpenSymbol, and may be the same problem seen with ZapfDingbats (which is fontmapped to OpenSymbol if it wasn't explicitly installed), and LucidaGrande (converted on installation via fondu).

As we will be required to use freetype 2.1.3 or newer for the OS X font support, we should work with the gsl/freeytpe teams to track down why we're completely hosing the kerning info.
Comment 3 fa 2003-01-30 00:55:54 UTC 
Grabbing this issue as I've been working on font support/psprint.

Dan
Comment 4 fa 2003-01-30 00:56:33 UTC 
I will be investigating this heavily when I begin to test the Mac native font support.
Comment 5 fa 2003-01-31 20:55:18 UTC 
Reassigning to me.
Comment 6 fa 2003-03-12 03:50:01 UTC 
Hi,

For whatever reason, fonts without a 'kern' table do not always get correctly rendered.
They should drop back to using the 'hmtx' (horizontal metrics) table, which contains
generic width but no kerning data, but its not happening.  Please see IZ 10843 for
tracking of the native font patches.

Marking as duplicate of 10843.

dan

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 10843 ***
Comment 7 Martin Hollmichel 2004-03-25 07:52:06 UTC 
close issue.