Re: Need pointer to track down font metrics / character spacing problem

Hi John,
            Do all font do this? Or do just some of them?

My first guess is fontconfig is not working correctly.

Thanks!

Martin

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:58 PM, John Wehle <john@feith.com> wrote:
>
> I've built abiword 2.6.6 on FreeBSD 6.4, however characters in the
> documents are not spaced correctly. For example if I start abiword
> and enter "Hello" all the letters overlap by about 90% (i.e. what I
> see is a black ink smudge). If I enter "Hello" with about 15 spaces
> between each letter, then the screen displays "Hello".
>
> Where should I track back tracking in the debugger / what's a good
> starting point?
>
> Note: I have other GTK applications which work okay so I believe the
> basic environment is somewhat sane.
>
> -- John
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Received on Thu Jan 29 12:48:40 2009