Font line spacing change?

[Kevin Oberman]

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> After my first reboot in about a month I see something wrong with the
>> spacing of my fonts. There is more space between lines sop that the text
>> looks like 1.5 spacing. It makes my initial screen after starting X look
>> messy as windows now overlap.
>>
>> The attached image shows the problem. Changing the font makes no
>> difference. All seem to have the excess space between lines. This only
>> shows up in Mate/Gnome apps like mate-terminal, yelp,  emacs25, and file
>> selection windows (caja?), etc. I don't see it in firefox. It is clearly
>> not caja or mate-desktop as these have not been updated since last year.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone know where to look for the port
>> that could trigger this? I'm just a bit suspicious of freetype2 since it
>> had a rather major update.
>>
>> System is running 11-STABLE r317350 amd64 and all ports are current as of
>> 7 hours ago. The problem appeared after a reboot, so I have little idea of
>> how recently this might have happened. I do have logs of all installs since
>> my last restart of X on 5-May.
>>
>
> OK. It does look like freetype2 is the culprit. I tried changing to a
> non-TrueType/Type1 font an the spacing is back to normal. With
> LucidaTypewriter-Sans, the spacing is normal. So it looks like the issue is
> the updated print/freetype2-2.8. I'll open a bug report when I have fully
> confirmed by rolling back to the old version with everything else at Latest.
>

I tried switching to TT metrics, but no improvement. I also tried going
back to V38, not that seemed likely. Again, no change.

I rolled back to 2.7.1 and it works correctly again.  This is using
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. I am attaching an image of another 24x80
mate-terminal that is correct and will open a ticket on this shortly.

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