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Bug 172938 - [PATCH] media-libs/freetype-2.1.10-r2 completely broken due to *disabled kerning*!
Summary: [PATCH] media-libs/freetype-2.1.10-r2 completely broken due to *disabled kern...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal
Assignee: foser (RETIRED)
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Depends on: 173804
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Reported: 2007-03-31 22:44 UTC by Gilles Schintgen
Modified: 2007-07-01 21:30 UTC (History)
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Description Gilles Schintgen 2007-03-31 22:44:46 UTC 
In the current stable freetype, kerning is completely disabled. Consequently, it's unusable for anything where nice text rendering is required, e.g. gimp, openoffice.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use freetype-2.1.10-r2
2. type "VA" in openoffice
3. notice that letter spacing is huge
4. notice that enabling/disabling kerning in format/character does nothing.
5. compare with sane freetype (2.2.1, or Ubuntu freetype).

Actual Results:  
Kerning can't be enabled.

Expected Results:  
Kerning should work.

THERE IS A PATCH AVAILABLE:

It has been posted at bug 128760.

Apparently Debian suffered from the same bug:
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2006-September/019796.html

Another solution is to upgrade to freetype-2.2.1.
Comment 1 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-01 21:30:33 UTC 
all archs now have freetype-2.3 stable.