DejaVu Serif 12 pt not rendering number characters correctly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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fonts-dejavu (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ttf-dejavu
The DejaVu family is a wonderful set of screen fonts. I have recently switched to a new machine and am running into a problem with certain characters. Since it's the numerals, it's quite noticeable.
It does not manifest at 11pt nor at 14pt. But at 12pt (what I'm trying to use) and 13pt, certain digits render at a different height than other digits. This is exceedingly jarring, to say the least.
If I use the `gnome-
The screen is a laptop LCD at
dimensions: 1366x768 pixels (270x150 millimeters)
resolution: 129x130 dots per inch
according to `xdpyinfo`.
Screenshot (using gnome-specimen to examine the problem) attached.
AfC
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 8 17:56:08 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: ttf-dejavu 2.29-2
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LC_TIME=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
LC_PAPER=
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: ttf-dejavu
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64
affects: | ttf-dejavu (Ubuntu) → fonts-dejavu (Ubuntu) |
Screenshot made with `gnome-specimen` showing the numeral characters being misrendered in Deja Vu Serif (but not Sans or Sans Mono).
AfC