Font rendering

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#1

Hi.
Was there a change in font rendering between 5.2.7 and 5.3.3.
The lines of text in 5.3 are now slightly longer in a document created in 5.2.7 and I get text re-flowing upsetting my layout. Is this something that should be stable in future releases and I just have to fix up once or likely to change again in the next release.
Steve

#2

They should be stable now--our calculation of line heights for Windows builds
was changed to bring it in line with Linux and MacOS with tdf#55469
<https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55469> for the 5.3.0
release.

There is some potential this may still need to be tweaked but I believe it
is intended to remain as it is now. The issue some folks are having is with
differing font metrics of fonts installed to OS or even between
distributions.

But if the font metrics are the same--the line spacing will remain be the
same across

A few BZ issues suggest it has been an issue for some time and may not
exactly be correct now... but main concern should be the quality/consistency
of your fonts.

=-ref-=
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109235
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92502
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105860

#3

Thanks Stuart.
I copy the same font package for the fonts I use across machines to ensure consistency, I first noticed a variation between mac and Linux but that was solved when I copied my Linux version of the font to the mac and I now ensure the same package is used on all machines. This may have been a side effect of the work done, but If the changes are looking settled I will adjust my documents when I revise them.

My issue now is one of line length increased in 5.3.3 causing additional wrapping, not inter-line spacing issues.
Steve

#4

Possibly my increased line length is related to this bug https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103322 and introduction of HarfBuzz in 5.3.
Sometimes finding a bug comes down to chancing upon suitable terminology in the search.
steve