Re: OT: Buggy fonts

[Duane Clark]

Huw D M Davies wrote:
> A much better way to do font rendering in Wine is to use the new
> client side rendering code.  For this you need an XServer capable of
> supporting the RENDER extension (xdpyinfo will tell you whether you
> have such a beast) and a copy of the FreeType library version at least
> 2.0.5 (but the later the better).  Add a [FontDirs] section to your
> ~/.wine/config file, with entries pointing at any directories that
> contain TT fonts...

This got me to try out the client side rendering. It really does make 
the fonts (in MS Word in particular) not suck! Nice job. Guess I will 
stick with this configuration.

I came across two issues. The first is that virtually all dialogs and 
some windows were being drawn too narrow. The window/dialog height was 
normal. Looking at traces with and without the client side rendering, I 
saw this difference:

Server rendering:
trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32 DIALOG 0, 0, 287, 165, 0
trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32  STYLE 0x80c820c0
trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32  EXSTYLE 0x00000000
trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32  CAPTION L"Open"
trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32  FONT 8, L"helv", 0, FALSE
trace:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance L"System", h=16, it=0, weight=400, 
PandF=22, charset=0 orient 0 escapement 0
...
trace:font:XFONT_GetAvgCharWidth  retuning 6
trace:font:XFONT_RealizeFont physfont 3
trace:font:GetTextMetricsW text metrics:
     Weight = 400	 FirstChar = 0	 AveCharWidth = 6

Client rendering:
trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32 DIALOG 0, 0, 287, 165, 0
trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32  STYLE 0x80c820c0
trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32  EXSTYLE 0x00000000
trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32  CAPTION L"Open"
trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32  FONT 8, L"helv", 0, FALSE
...
trace:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance L"helv", h=-10, it=0, weight=0, 
PandF=00, charset=1 orient 0 escapement 0
...
trace:font:WineEngGetTextMetrics OS/2 winA = 1854 winD = 434 typoA = 
1491 typoD = -431 typoLG = 307 FT_Face a = 1854, d = -434, h = 2355: 
HORZ a = 1854, d = -434 lg = 67 maxY = 2124 minY = -665
trace:font:WineEngGetTextMetrics xAvgCharWidth 904 x_scale 20480 
tmAvgCharWidth 4
trace:font:GetTextMetricsW text metrics:
     Weight = 400	 FirstChar = 32	 AveCharWidth = 4

Suspecting the average char width, but not understanding the code that 
generates it, I cheated. In WineEngGetTextMetrics(), I added:
     if (ptm->tmAveCharWidth == 4)
         ptm->tmAveCharWidth = 6;

And this fixes all the dialogs and windows for me.

The other problem I ran across is shown in these pictures, showing 
server and client side rendering. My little hack above had no effect on 
this particular problem.
http://www.leewardfpga.com/server.png
http://www.leewardfpga.com/client.png

As can be seen, the vertical text is getting chopped off slightly.

The font with the problem is Tahoma, and this is with a ~/.wine/config 
that contains

[fonts]
"Resolution" = "96"
"Default" = "-adobe-times-"
"DefaultFixed" = "fixed"
"DefaultSerif" = "-monotype-times new roman-"
"DefaultSansSerif" = "-microsoft-tahoma-"

OT: Buggy fonts

[Francois Gouget]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Duane Clark wrote:
[...]
> The other problem I ran across is shown in these pictures, showing
> server and client side rendering. My little hack above had no effect on
> this particular problem.
> http://www.leewardfpga.com/server.png
> http://www.leewardfpga.com/client.png

This looks like a FreeType bug. Slashdot had a story about this some
time ago and I believe it was related to anti-aliasing. Disabling
anti-aliasing, or better, upgrading the FreeType library may fix this
problem.

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OT: Buggy fonts

[Huw D M Davies]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:26:31PM -0800, Duane Clark wrote:
> Huw D M Davies wrote:
> > A much better way to do font rendering in Wine is to use the new
> > client side rendering code.  For this you need an XServer capable of
> > supporting the RENDER extension (xdpyinfo will tell you whether you
> > have such a beast) and a copy of the FreeType library version at least
> > 2.0.5 (but the later the better).  Add a [FontDirs] section to your
> > ~/.wine/config file, with entries pointing at any directories that
> > contain TT fonts...
>
> This got me to try out the client side rendering.

Good, that was the idea :)
> I came across two issues. The first is that virtually all dialogs and 
> some windows were being drawn too narrow. The window/dialog height was 
> normal.

Actaully it's the code that calculates the size of the dialog units
that's wrong.  Give me a couple of days and I'll dig out my patch.
> The other problem I ran across is shown in these pictures, showing 
> server and client side rendering. My little hack above had no effect on 
> this particular problem.
> http://www.leewardfpga.com/server.png
> http://www.leewardfpga.com/client.png
>
> As can be seen, the vertical text is getting chopped off slightly.

As Francois says this maybe a FreeType bug (versions < 2.0.6 have
errors calculating the advance width of certain glyphs.  If you could
upgrade FreeType and test again that would be very helpful, if it's
still a problem we'll take it from there.

Thanks,

Huw.

OT: Buggy fonts

[Duane Clark]

Huw D M Davies wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:26:31PM -0800, Duane Clark wrote:
> > The other problem I ran across is shown in these pictures, showing 
> > server and client side rendering. My little hack above had no effect on 
> > this particular problem.
> > http://www.leewardfpga.com/server.png
> > http://www.leewardfpga.com/client.png
> >
> > As can be seen, the vertical text is getting chopped off slightly.
>
> As Francois says this maybe a FreeType bug (versions < 2.0.6 have
> errors calculating the advance width of certain glyphs.  If you could
> upgrade FreeType and test again that would be very helpful, if it's
> still a problem we'll take it from there.

I was using FreeType 2.0.6, but I went ahead and upgraded to 2.0.9. It 
still looks the same though (slightly cut off).

OT: Buggy fonts

[Huw D M Davies]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 08:35:51AM -0800, Duane Clark wrote:
> Huw D M Davies wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:26:31PM -0800, Duane Clark wrote:
> > > The other problem I ran across is shown in these pictures, showing 
> > > server and client side rendering. My little hack above had no effect on 
> > > this particular problem.
> > > http://www.leewardfpga.com/server.png
> > > http://www.leewardfpga.com/client.png
> > >
> > > As can be seen, the vertical text is getting chopped off slightly.
> >
> > As Francois says this maybe a FreeType bug (versions < 2.0.6 have
> > errors calculating the advance width of certain glyphs.  If you could
> > upgrade FreeType and test again that would be very helpful, if it's
> > still a problem we'll take it from there.
>
> I was using FreeType 2.0.6, but I went ahead and upgraded to 2.0.9. It 
> still looks the same though (slightly cut off).

Could you send me a --debugmsg +relay=gdi32,+font,+xrender,+text log
for this please?

Thanks,

Huw.