Re: 5.2 rc2 tarball now available

[Dmitri A. S. <das...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 1:12 PM, sfeam <sf...@us...> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 04 July 2017 12:58:08 Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 12:46 PM, sfeam <sf...@us...>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tuesday, 04 July 2017 12:01:33 Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 10:59 AM, sfeam via gnuplot-beta <
> > > > gnu...@li...> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Further, I can see that
> > > > > >       set term qt; test
> > > > > > does not pass the test of character width (testing rectangle is
> too
> > > > > narrow),
> > > > > > while x11 and wxt pass well.
> > > > >
> > > > >   I don't see this problem here.
> > > > >   Is it maybe an issue with the font?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > ​I can reproduce it and it is definitely font/font size dependent
> but ​
> > > > ​mostly wrong than right​.
> > > >
> > > > Attached are screenshots with fonts set to "DroidSans,9" (bad)
> > > > and "DroidSans,14" (OK).
> > >
> > > Huh.  It works fine for me.  Mageia 5/Qt5
> > >
> > > screenshot attached from
> > >    set term qt font "DroidSans,9"; test
> > >
> > > I am still guessing it is an error in font handling, external to
> gnuplot.
> > >
> > >         Ethan
> > >
> > >
> > > > This is on Fedora 26/Qt5
> > > >
> > > > Dmitri.
> > > > --
> > >
> >
> > ​Perhaps. The kerning looks different (see e.g. the spacing between "t"
> and
> > "e" in "test")
> >
> > I will try on plasma desktop.
>
> I have the Droid fonts courtesy of TexLive.  They provide them as *.ttf
> and as
> *.afm  + *.pfb
>
> I specifically tested the ttf variant.  Can you check if you are using an
> Adobe
> variant instead?   Or for that matter a TeX-processed *.vf or *.tfm
> version?
> The pre-processed versions in particular would be likely to scale badly.
>
>
​I used Google's Droid fonts.
I have tried many fonts, and all of them have this problem. if you play
with the size, you can find a range where it is almost OK, but usually it
is not.
Here is with dejavu sans mono 9 (this is actually the best fit I could get
--
it gets worse for either smaller or bigger sizes).
​(This is still on Gnome desktop).​




>         Ethan
>
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