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Summary: Hershey fonts broken in WYSIWYG text and graphic editing programs (scribus, abiword)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707007
Summary: Hershey fonts broken in WYSIWYG text and graphic editing programs (scribus, abiword) Product: Fedora Version: 14 Platform: Unspecified OS/Version: Unspecified Status: NEW Severity: unspecified Priority: unspecified Component: ghostscript-fonts AssignedTo: twaugh@redhat.com ReportedBy: martin@laptop.org QAContact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: twaugh@redhat.com, fonts-bugs@lists.fedoraproject.org Classification: Fedora Story Points: ---
Description of problem:
Hershey fonts have problems in WYSIWYG text editing programs and image manipulation programs.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-23.fc12.noarch
How reproducible:
Always
Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open Abiword 2.Select any of the Hershey fonts 3.Write in your document
- Font is unreadable - Pressing enter does not create a newline
Other repro:
1. groupinstall Sugar Desktop 2. Login to Sugar Desktop 3. Start the 'Paint' (oficina) activity 4. Activate the text tool 5. Select hershey font 6. Click on canvas and type
- Font is unreadable - Writing is not immediate on each keystroke -- displays only after clicking elsewhere on the canvas.
See also
* http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/issues/detail?id=11 * http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6720240 * blacklisted in old fontconfig http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora- cvs-commits/2005-October/msg00806.html * OpenOffice blacklists them - but they appear on Abiword * Scribus also has issues http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2010-November/040145.html
Tracked by OLPC as http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10902