Re: [Bug?] Text rendering under Cocoa
Re: [Bug?] Text rendering under Cocoa
- Subject: Re: [Bug?] Text rendering under Cocoa
- From: Rakesh Pandey <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:16:47 +0530
This occurs with a few more fonts try to type 'gg' and change the font to
'Papyrus' and size to 288. See the first 'g' is chopped off , moreover
they overlap too.
It happens with a few more fonts but with different characters.
Regards
Rakesh
On 11/12/02 10:05 PM, "Ondra Cada" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 05:00 , Stiphane Sudre wrote:
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> Is this a known bug that when you try to draw a huge 'j' letter with the
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> AppKit, you get an improper result.
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Do you? I don't.
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> Example:
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> 1) Launch TextEdit.app
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> 2) Type: JJoy of Tech
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> 3) Select the text and set the font to be Lucida Grande 288.
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> And then compare the J on the left to its neighbour. Looks like the first
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> J is on horizontal diet.
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When I try here (10.1.5), I get both J's exactly the same; only with
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Lucida Grande there seems to be a metric problem, which causes the left
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edge of the J to be somewhat into the letter, actually. Just try that, try
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also to place a space (or even better a letter, say, 'a') before the first
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J, and also try to select the J.
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> We're seeing this bug with [NSString drawAtPoint: withAttributes:]; too.
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> Do I need to file a bug report or is this a known issue (which is also in
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> 10.1 AFAIK)?
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Can't say for sure, but this definitely looks as a specific problem of the
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metrics inside the Lucida Grande font (no such problem with Helvetica or
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Times; I haven't tried others). I haven't slightest idea whether it was
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reported or not.
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Ondra Cada
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