[Bug 669571] Re: Ubuntu font's hooked lower-case "l" is autohinted with uneven left/right space

[Hugh McMaster]

Closing. Fixed.

** Changed in: freetype (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Ubuntu font's hooked lower-case "l" is autohinted with uneven
  left/right space

Status in freetype package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  1. Load the attached HTML file in an app that uses the Ubuntu font's manual hinting.
  <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191181257/669571-plan.html>

  What you see: In the sequences "pla", "ple", "plo", there is equal space left and right of the stem of the "l".
  <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191180442/669571-hinted-manually.png>

  2. Load the same file in an app that uses the Freetype autohinter.

  What you see: The spacing on either side of the stem is sometimes different.
  <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191181208/669571-hinted-automatically.png>

  What you should see: There is equal space left and right of the stem
  of the "l".

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