https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1433628
Bug ID: 1433628 Summary: First line of pixels chopped off in Chromium/Chrome when liberation-fonts built with fontforge > 20150430 Product: Fedora Version: 25 Component: liberation-fonts Assignee: psatpute@redhat.com Reporter: chillermillerlong@hotmail.com QA Contact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: fonts-bugs@lists.fedoraproject.org, i18n-bugs@lists.fedoraproject.org, petersen@redhat.com, psatpute@redhat.com
Description of problem:
The current liberation-fonts package is built by fontforge 20160404 and results in the top of the fonts being chopped off in some pages in Chrome/Chromium.
For example, with this page: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/600h4f/wine_24_released/
When built with fontforge 20160404: http://i.imgur.com/kO2H3Hw.png When built with fontforge 20150430: http://i.imgur.com/IQmu5o3.png
Notice how the first line of pixels is getting chopped off.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
liberation-fonts-common-1.07.4-7.fc24.noarch liberation-mono-fonts-1.07.4-7.fc24.noarch liberation-sans-fonts-1.07.4-7.fc24.noarch liberation-serif-fonts-1.07.4-7.fc24.noarch fontforge-20160404-5.fc25.x86_64
Additional info:
I did a git bisect and found that this is the commit in fontforge that introduced the issue.
--- [chenxiaolong@cxl-fedora25vm fontforge]$ git bisect bad e870019c2602d50eb00793e979f3e11bcc71d6cf is the first bad commit commit e870019c2602d50eb00793e979f3e11bcc71d6cf Author: Frédéric Wang fred.wang@free.fr Date: Wed May 13 08:03:13 2015 +0200
Fix read/write of bits USE_TYPO_METRICS and WWS for OS2 version < 4
:040000 040000 7032ea971c1d084ab8a038b4a80d9092e53a8519 eb11e4b5a69718ad94d8dbfc414e7b2a944548d3 M fontforge ---
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/commit/e870019c2602d50eb00793e979f3e1...
Is this something that can be fixed without affecting/breaking other fonts?