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  • Bug#266228: gsfonts: Courier fonts appear too big

    From Vincent Lefevre@1:229/2 to Phil Homewood on Fri Aug 20 13:10:13 2004
    From: [email protected]

    On 2004-08-17 14:10:46 +1000, Phil Homewood wrote:
    After upgrading from 8.14-3, Courier fonts seem to have increased
    in size by a point or two. (This may or may not be related to
    #266107; I suspect it's not the same thing.)

    I have also noticed this on a Debian/unstable x86 machine with
    Mozilla; the monospace font is now very big. :( I don't know if
    this is related, but the space between the menu items and between
    consecutive lines of text in Mozilla (built with --enable-xft and --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2) has also increased.

    I upgraded the gsfonts package to the same version on a Debian/testing
    PPC machine, but I didn't notice any change in the monospace font size
    (but I don't know if the same font is used, and I'm using VNC there,
    so the behavior may be different from the XFree86 one).

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  • From Phil Homewood@1:229/2 to All on Tue Aug 17 06:30:05 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Package: gsfonts
    Version: 8.14+urwcyr1.0.7pre35-1
    Severity: normal

    After upgrading from 8.14-3, Courier fonts seem to have increased
    in size by a point or two. (This may or may not be related to
    #266107; I suspect it's not the same thing.)

    8pt fonts now appear about the same size as 10pt ones used to.
    Dropping my 8pt fonts to 6pt and the 10pt ones to 8pt results
    in output comparable to that from 8.14-3. (the actual usage is
    tape labels from "amanda".) Helvetica-Bold and Palatino-Bold
    don't appear to be affected; indeed the 8pt Courier and the
    10pt Palatino-Bold look to be about the same size.

    Cheers,
    Phil

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 3.1
    APT prefers testing
    APT policy: (500, 'testing')
    Architecture: i386 (i686)
    Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
    Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

    Versions of packages gsfonts depends on:
    ii defoma 0.11.8 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f

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