Bug 9362

Summary:

REGRESSION: Doubly-bold fonts seen at Google and elsewhere (again)

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

John Sullivan <sullivan>

Component:

Text

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Severity:

Normal

CC:

ap, darin, rachael

Priority:

Keywords:

GoogleBug, Regression

Version:

420+

Hardware:

Mac

OS:

OS X 10.4

URL:

http://www.google.com

Attachments:

Description	Flags
picture showing extra-bold text at Google	none
One font that causes this problem	none

John Sullivan

Reported 2006-06-08 09:53:38 PDT

This bug is also in Radar as <rdar://4578554> Bold text at Google and some other sites is extra-bold on one of my two computers. See attached picture. This occurred earlier just after we added support for synthetic bold, but broke again recently. The earlier bug and fix were in Bugzilla as http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6146 The font that's causing this problem is attached. If I disable this font in Font Book and relaunch Safari, the problem goes away. Since the symptoms are exactly the same as before, it seems like recent changes in the font code broke or removed the earlier fix.

Attachments
picture showing extra-bold text at Google (27.67 KB, image/png) 2006-06-08 09:54 PDT, John Sullivan	no flags	Details
One font that causes this problem (198.78 KB, application/zip) 2006-06-08 09:55 PDT, John Sullivan	no flags	Details
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John Sullivan

Comment 1 2006-06-08 09:54:18 PDT

Created attachment 8772 [details] picture showing extra-bold text at Google

John Sullivan

Comment 2 2006-06-08 09:55:29 PDT

Created attachment 8773 [details] One font that causes this problem

Darin Adler

Comment 3 2006-06-24 20:07:59 PDT

*** Bug 9534 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Darin Adler

Comment 4 2006-06-25 17:50:20 PDT

I installed the font and was unable to reproduce any problem at Google even after setting my default font to Arial. I'd love to fix this but I need steps to reproduce.

Darin Adler

Comment 5 2006-06-25 17:52:28 PDT

The code originally added to fix this bug is still in the tree, albeit in a new location. John, maybe we can work together on this if you can reproduce it.

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 6 2006-06-25 23:36:17 PDT

(In reply to comment #4) > I installed the font and was unable to reproduce any problem at Google Darin, could you reproduce bug 9534? I'm not entirely convinced it is a duplicate of this one.

Dave Hyatt

Comment 7 2006-06-26 02:26:05 PDT

I couldn't reproduce either.

John Sullivan

Comment 8 2006-06-26 09:58:27 PDT

I'm not seeing this anymore either with tip of tree WebKit. Apparently it was fixed by some other change.

David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)

Comment 9 2007-01-04 05:20:11 PST

Technically a Google bug.

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