Bug 9550 – Font Kerning hard to read when zoomed in web browser

Bug 9550 - Font Kerning hard to read when zoomed in web browser


Summary:	Font Kerning hard to read when zoomed in web browser

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 7335

Product:	Desktop platform
Component:	Fonts
Version:	5.0/(3.2010.02-8)
Platform:	All Maemo

Importance:	Unspecified normal with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Jakub Pavelek
QA Contact:	fonts-bugs

URL:	http://www.jdidesign.com/files-in/mae...
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Blocks:
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Reported:	2010-03-15 08:10 UTC by Tim Watt
Modified:	2010-03-15 12:37 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Tim Watt (reporter) 2010-03-15 08:10:29 UTC

SOFTWARE VERSION:
3.2010.02.8.002

EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: 

1. launch web browser 
2. navigate to any text rich page eg: (www.slashdot.org)
3. zoom in (any method rotating finger or use volume rocker) I prefer to double
tap the text column.

EXPECTED OUTCOME:
text in words is rendered with consistent spacing between caricatures. defined
as: correct Kerning 

ACTUAL OUTCOME:
text in words is rendered with inconsistent spacing between caricatures.
defined as: Bad kerning some words render 2 words the space is so large. 

REPRODUCIBILITY:
(always)

EXTRA SOFTWARE INSTALLED:
Thai fonts and /NA

OTHER COMMENTS:

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2)
Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Comment 1 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2010-03-15 12:37:43 UTC

Hi Tim, thanks for reporting this!
This particular issue has already been reported in our bug tracking system, but
please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

This will be fixed in the next public update.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7335 ***