Bugs/Archived
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Known bugs
Subscripts and superscripts are too high/low #7223
| Description | Subscripts and superscripts are way higher/lower in DejaVu Sans Mono than in Bitstream Vera Mono |
| Environment | spotted with DejaVu TTF in Firefox on Windows |
| Reported by | Mike Brown |
| Reproducible? | No |
| Cause | Positions and sizes of super- and subscripts set in TrueType tables are not equal for DejaVu and Vera, but it is not known if Firefox uses them (more information) |
Bad kerning in experimental typefaces #7222
| Description | Bad kerning in experimental typefaces |
| Environment | spotted with DejaVu QPF |
| Reported by | Vašek Stodůlka |
| Reproducible? | Yes |
| Cause | Bad kerning |
Misplaced accents in small sizes #7224
| Description | Misplaced accents in small sizes (10pt and below) |
| Environment | spotted with DejaVu TTF on Linux with TT hinter and Windows |
| Reported by | David Jež, Misu Moldovan and others |
| Reproducible? | Yes |
| Cause | Composite characters have no hinting or anchors |
Bad "kerning" for some characters #7222
| Description | Bad "kerning" for some characters - see screenshots for Bitstream Vera and DejaVu Sans (first, second) |
| Environment | spotted with DejaVu TTF on Linux (freetype with both TT hinter and autohinter) |
| Reported by | Misu Moldovan and Artis Rozentals |
| Reproducible? | Yes |
| Cause | first: weird behavior of the SHZ instruction, second: flag USE_MY_METRICS not used in composite glyphs (relevant threads on mailing list) (this is an unfixed spin-off from "worse than Vera" bug) |
Sans Condensed not recognized as installable on eComStation #7226
| Description | Sans Condensed not recognized as installable on eComStation 2.0b1b (see relevant mail) |
| Environment | eComStation 2.0b1b |
| Reported by | Vernon Tonnesen |
| Reproducible? | Yes? |
| Cause | Unknown (works on eComStation 1.14) |
Sans Mono Roman and Bold not recognized by some OS X applications #7227
| Description | Sans Mono Roman and Bold are not recognized by some OS X applications like Terminal and TextEdit, but Oblique and Bold Oblique work fine |
| Environment | DejaVu fonts 2.3, Mac OS X 10.4.5 |
| Reported by | Benjamin Esham |
| Reproducible? | Yes? |
| Cause | Unknown |
Serif Oblique is poorly rendered with ClearType activated
| Description | letters with a curvy top have bumps (see in FireFox and OpenOffice.org). |
| Environment | DejaVu fonts 2.4, ClearType in Windows |
| Reported by | Xavier Robin |
| Reproducible? | Yes? |
| Cause | Lack of instructions in Serif Oblique, ClearType autohints to font and does it poorly. |
Fixed bugs
Qt 3.x applications can't display some glyphs
| Description | Qt 3.x applications can't display some glyphs in the range U+2070-U+20CF except the euro currency symbol |
| Environment | Qt 3.x applications under linux at least |
| Reported by | Médéric Boquien |
| Reproducible? | Yes |
| Cause | Qt 3.x bug (solved in Qt 4.x) |
U+042B and U+044B behave badly in Sans Bold or Oblique
| Description | U+042B and U+044B from Sans Bold or Oblique are shifted to the right if there is a glyph next to them (see screenshot) |
| Environment | reproduced on Linux/KDE |
| Reported by | Andrew Zabolotny |
| Reproducible? | Yes |
| Cause | Incorrect USE_MY_METRICS (fixed in version 2.3) |
Vertical spacing too big for Mono
| Description | Vertical spacing between lines is bigger with DejaVu Sans Mono than with Bitstream Vera Mono |
| Environment | spotted with DejaVu TTF in Firefox, Word, OpenOffice, SecureCRT, and cmd.exe (but not IE, Wordpad, Notepad, TextPad) on Windows |
| Reported by | Mike Brown |
| Reproducible? | No |
| Cause | Line gaps set in TrueType tables are not equal for DejaVu and Vera, but it is not known whether some of affected applications actually use them (more information; fixed in version 2.1) |
LTR glyphs behaving like RTL
| Description | Some glyphs (namely U+03F6, U+03FD and U+03FF) behave like right-to-left in respect to cursor placing (they also overlap with existing text) - screenshot |
| Environment | spotted with DejaVu TTF Sans and Sans Bold in OpenOffice.org on Windows XP |
| Reported by | Nocturnal Dreamer |
| Reproducible? | No |
| Cause | Guess is that OpenOffice.org does not like reversed references (fixed in version 2.0) |
MS Windows report empty font
| Description | MS Windows report empty font name for all DejaVu faces |
| Environment | spotted with DejaVu TTF on Windows |
| Reported by | Chris Lawrence and Cody Boisclair |
| Reproducible? | Yes |
| Cause | Bad ordering of tables in TTF (fixed in version 1.13) |
Ligatures in Mono
| Description | Ligatures in DejaVu Sans Mono (screenshot) |
| Environment | spotted with DejaVu TTF on MacOS X |
| Reported by | Cody Boisclair |
| Reproducible? | Yes |
| Cause | Mono fonts have ligatures table (relevant thread on mailing list; fixed in version 1.10) |
Vanishing "nj"
| Description | Text sequence "nj" vanishes when printed with DejaVu fonts |
| Environment | DejaVu TTF on Mac OS X.3.8 |
| Reported by | Slobodan Despot |
| Reproducible? | Yes(?) |
| Cause | FontForge writes incorrect ligatures into morx TT table (fixed in version 1.9) |
Broken Sans Oblique rcaron
| Description | Sans Oblique rcaron rendering is broken |
| Environment | DejaVu TTF in Mozilla Firebird 0.7 on Linux |
| Reported by | Vítězslav Kotrla |
| Reproducible? | No |
| Cause | Unknown (looks like hinting bug in Firebird; let's pretend it's fixed) |
Worse than Vera
| Description | DejaVu looks worse than Vera without antialiasing |
| Environment | spotted with DejaVu TTF on Debian testing (XFree86 4.3.0, freetype 2.1.7) |
| Reported by | Michal Krause |
| Reproducible? | No |
| Cause | Unknown (looks like hinting is switched off for DejaVu), but see this mail (fixed in version 1.6) |
Mono is not monospaced
| Description | DejaVu TTF Mono typefaces are not recognized as monospaced |
| Environment | spotted with DejaVu TTF in Konsole |
| Reported by | Damjan Georgievski |
| Reproducible? | Yes |
| Cause | Some glyphs in DejaVu Sans Mono Bold Oblique have different width (fixed in version 1.6) (cause and possible solutions) |
Line height too big
| Description | DejaVu Sans Mono or DejaVu Serif when used in OpenOffice.org have line height twice as big as it should be - see screenshots for Sans, Sans Mono and Serif |
| Environment | spotted with DejaVu TTF 1.5 and CVS, OO.org 1.0 and 1.1, Slackware Linux 7.0, 8.1, 9.1 and 10.0 |
| Reported by | David Jež |
| Reproducible? | Partially (Serif looks good) |
| Cause | Some glyphs have too big descender (fixed in version 1.6) |
