Bug 688557 - Bad hints in URW fonts
Summary: Bad hints in URW fonts
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fonts
Classification: Unclassified
Component: free URW (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P4 normal
Assignee: Chris Liddell (chrisl)
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: 687297
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Reported: 2006-02-13 12:59 UTC by leonardo
Modified: 2013-07-12 15:00 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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2006-02-13 13:02 UTC, leonardo 		Details
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2006-02-13 13:07 UTC, leonardo 		Details
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Description leonardo 2006-02-13 12:59:17 UTC 
a couple of problematic glyphs detected while working on Type 1 hinter. Will 
attach pictures.
Comment 1 leonardo 2006-02-13 13:02:11 UTC 
Created attachment 2034 [details]
1.zip

A problem in NimbusRomNo9L-Regu :
The upper horizontal stem in 'p' appears wider that such stems in other glyphs.

Attaching a ZIP with 2 .bmp files.
Comment 2 leonardo 2006-02-13 13:07:49 UTC 
Created attachment 2035 [details]
2.zip

A problem in URWPalladioL-Roma :
The upper horizontal stem in 'D' misses a flex hint.
We recommend to check other glyphs in this font.
Attaching a ZIP with 1 .bmp files.
Comment 3 leonardo 2006-02-13 13:59:18 UTC 
In all pictures the original ouutline is painted with blur, a grid fitted 
outline is painted with green. We believe thatg grid fitting problems happen 
due to bad hints.
Comment 4 leonardo 2006-02-13 14:00:35 UTC 
s/blur/blue
Comment 5 Valek Filippov 2007-05-25 09:15:28 UTC 
Hi Leonardo!

I would like to know how to reproduce those images localy (if it's possible),
to check current version of fonts.
Comment 6 leonardo 2007-05-27 09:23:23 UTC 
The drafts were generated with running Ghostscript with -Th option. See 
gs/Use.htm#Visual_trace, gs/doc/Use.htm#Debug_switches . Note it works on 
Windows only. Also you need a PS file that paints a single glyph.
Comment 7 Valek Filippov 2007-08-06 14:36:36 UTC 
Could you please check with 1.0.7pre43 release of urw-fonts?
ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/urw/release/urw-fonts-1.0.7pre43.tar.bz2

Thanks
Comment 8 Alex Cherepanov 2009-09-22 10:34:57 UTC 
*** Bug 687297 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Ken Sharp 2010-05-08 12:40:32 UTC 
re-assigning Ralph's bugs
Comment 10 Shailesh Mistry 2011-07-18 21:41:10 UTC 
Bug still reproducible in Ghostscript 9.03