On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 17:55 +0200, Christian Nolte wrote: > Hi, > > currently I am working on a website which should be displayed correctly > on Linux and Windows using the "Arial"-Font. I've learned that > liberation-fonts are the way to go (because they are metric compatible), > and discovered a problem with a font-size below 12px. The fonts are > rendered with different spaces between the characters independent of the > browser, but seemingly dependent of the OS (so I blame the > liberation-fonts). > > I am not quite sure if there are patent restriction or something else, > which prevents liberation-fonts to be exact clones, so it would be nice > if someone of you could tell me if this is expected behaviour, or a bug: > > Here are some screenshots of the browsers and OS combinations I have tested: > > ftp://velian.dyndns.org/pub/nolte/liberation-fonts/ie7-windows.png > ftp://velian.dyndns.org/pub/nolte/liberation-fonts/ff-3.5-windows.png > ftp://velian.dyndns.org/pub/nolte/liberation-fonts/ff-3.0.11-linux.png > > This is the testbed: > ftp://velian.dyndns.org/pub/nolte/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-test.html > > I have only tested this with font-sizes of 12px, 11px and 10px. Below > 12px liberation-fonts puts too much spaces between the characters, so > that 10px with liberation-fonts is equal to 11px Arial on Windows. > > BTW I am currently using liberation-fonts-1.04-1.fc9.noarch. But the > problem is visible on a F11-box too. See Bug 503430 - Incorrect Kerning in some applications https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503430 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
