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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#26565: select text doesn't apply font change
From:       Paul <moloko_people () lineone ! net>
Date:       2001-06-07 6:04:58
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On Sunday 03 June 2001 11:04 pm, you wrote:
> 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.
I don't know what program is puely QT  and X that would support this font, 
any ideas as I'd need to download these. 

In KPresenter using the same font I get the exact same problem. I tried to 
test this in star office but it doesn't have this font and actually looks as 
though it has its own fonts since most of the ones it listed I have no where 
else.

>
> Do you use font anti-aliasing ?
No
> What's your X server's DPI setting ? (xdpyinfo | grep resolution)
75 x 75 dpi
>
> > 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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