Re: Fonts squished vertically after upgrade to 2.14

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

O/H Jeffry Johnston έγραψε:
> Hi,
>
> After upgrading to Gnome 2.14 I noticed that fonts are squished from 
> the way they were before.  Here is an image showing the differences 
> (sorry for the poor quality of the "before" image, but I am just glad 
> I have proof that there IS a difference):
>
> http://kidsquid.com/files/ubuntu/fontcomparison.png
>
> The difference is most noticeable in the l, k, i, and # characters.  
> The font here is called "Monospace", and it is one of the default 
> fonts I got with Ubuntu.  Where the font is on disk, or what its 
> filename are, I have no idea.  Fonts in Linux are a big mystery to 
> me.. for example, why does the font show up in the Gnome font dialogs, 
> but not the Gnome font folder? Ahh well, don't want to get sidetracked 
> with silly details like that :)
>
> Anyone know how to unsquish my fonts?  Please mention certain 
> filenames or Ubuntu package names, if you can.
>
> I apologize in advance if this is not a Gnome issue.. I asked for a 
> while on the various Gnome IRC channels, but got no responses, so I 
> have no idea whether this is a Gnome problem or not.  If not, I still 
> would appreciate any help you can offer.

This is an issue with pango (GNOME library) and/or the DejaVu fonts.

The Monospace/Serif/Sans fonts you see in the settings are virtual 
fonts, which get their characters from the actual installed fonts.
To figure out which font is used to show English, open 
Accessories/Character Map, find the english (Latin) character block and 
right-click on each character.
You will notice it's DejaVu in the latest Ubuntu Dapper. Other scripts 
will pick the characters from different fonts.

There had been an issue with DejaVu and the support of Arabic; if DejaVu 
had Arabic support, it would mess up the "kerning" (optimisation of 
distance between characters), so things look squished. Now, in DejaVu 
they removed Arabic until the issue is resolved, so it should be ok.
Therefore, check out to see which version of the ttf-dejavu font you 
have installed. :)

Simos
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