[Freebangfont-devel] Re: [Ankur-gnome-tran] Re: Alignment of the glyphs

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On বুধ, 2003-04-30 at 10:06, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote:
> On 29 Apr 2003 22:50:38 +0530
> Sayamindu Dasgupta <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > Today, while working on the "Checking out the translations in
> > action" of the developers' guide, I was looking at the Bangla
> > desktop. Apparently, for some reasons, the glyphs are not getting
> > aligned properly, some of the letters are going up, while the others
> > are going down. However, for some of the fonts, there seems to be an
> > "optimal size" in which they do get aligned more or less properly.
> > For example, in Sagar, this value is 12.
> > (http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/banglaapps.jpg)
> > 
> > Does anybody have any idea why this is happening?
> > Arun/Karunakar - does this happen in Malayalam/Hindi as well?
> 
> On Redhat 8/9 its happening with both raghu & mangal fonts,
> but on Morphix (based on knoppix) with X 4.3 & Gnome 2.2 its not
> happening, I tried all font sizes, there were no alignment errors.
> Mandrake also showed results like RH. Not sure whether its font side
> issue or pango.
> 

Apparently, this is a FreeType issue.
Compiled and installed FreeType 2.1.4
(enabled truetype hinting)
Works like a charm.
-sdg-

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Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/]


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