On Tue Apr 28 18:30:48 2026 +0000, Esme Povirk wrote:
I'd want to hear if @dmitry has an opinion on that, since he added them originally. I'm ambivalent about having these at all. Given that the effective margins are going to vary with details of the font and how hinting affects the glyph sizes, I'm not sure we should assume they're stable even on Windows. The margins were added for an application that generates recognizable printing forms with PDF417 barcodes, so it was pretty important to make the forms look similar to the results obtained under Windows. Besides, the margins is a documented gdiplus feature. So, removing margins doesn't sound like an improvement to me, and needs very convincing arguments.
-- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10736#note_138039