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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#26565: select text doesn't apply font change
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-06-03 22:04:39
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On Sunday 03 June 2001 20:45, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Saga continues...
> 
> I found that to reproduce this you have to select more than a single word. 
> For instance selecting just yesterday as I might of lead you too believe 
> wasn't enough. 

No, you said the last two words, and that's what I tried....

> So I tried 'I did this' and change the font to gothic I then get 'I did thi'
> 
> Move of the screen to force a repaint does not redraw the screen with the 
> correct chars. 
> 
> The page is started as A4, and this is the third sentence in the document, I 
> can do it anywhere. In fact I just noticed that if I just type in this font 
> it does the same screwy things and it looks like the cursor is one char 
> behind where it is attempting to print the char you just wrote. 

So it starts to look more and more like a bug in the font metrics of that particular
font.
Can you test the same font with another KDE program, then with a Qt-only program,
then with an X program ? This way we can see at which level the bug is.

Do you use font anti-aliasing ?
What's your X server's DPI setting ? (xdpyinfo | grep resolution)

> So if you had a word of 5 chars the cursor is at 4 and the 5 char is only 
> half resembled on the screen. 
> 
> By half I mean if it were an X you'd see a greater sign (>) looking part of 
> the X. (Hope that makes sense).

Yes, I understand that. It's basically that the font metrics are incorrect
(width too small).

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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