Re: [DejaVu-fonts] baseline change in DejaVuSans 1.14?

[Andras S. <an...@dn...>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:19:14PM +0200, David Jez wrote:
> > between DejaVuSans 1.13 and 1.14 something changed with the way
> > this font is rendered in our application.  Text appears to be printed
> > with a much higher baseline, so that most text is no longer centered
> > vertically.
>   Do you have any screen? This can help. All glyphs are affected or not?

As far as I can tell, all glyphs are affected.  Attached are two sets
of two screen clippings, showing two buttons a and b, 1 with DejaVuSans
1.14 and 2 with DejaVuSans 1.12.

By the way, I am seeing this on Mac OS X.

> I think that we didn't change baseline, maybe hinting changes but it
> seems correct on my box.

What threw me here is that 1.12 and 1.13 work fine and 1.14 suddenly has
different behaviour, and I don't understand why.  The changes between
1.13 and 1.14 do not obviously relate to this.

>   What render are you using?

A fork of SDL_ttf with a few small patches.  I'm not that familiar with
the changes but they were submitted to the SDL folks a long time ago,
and I think incorporated in late 2004.
    http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/trunk/src/sdl_ttf/

Anything specific I could try to do to diagnose the problem?

-- Andras Salamon                   an...@dn...