Bug 21774 - Stretched SVG Text has awful glyph spacing
Summary: Stretched SVG Text has awful glyph spacing
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 12448
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: SVG (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.5
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
URL: http://trac.webkit.org/export/37761/t...
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Reported: 2008-10-21 12:09 PDT by Eric Seidel (no email)
Modified: 2011-02-01 04:02 PST (History)
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Description Eric Seidel (no email) 2008-10-21 12:09:07 PDT 
Stretched SVG Text has *awful* glyph spacing

http://trac.webkit.org/export/37761/trunk/LayoutTests/svg/hixie/viewbox/preserveAspectRatio/001.xml

I noticed this when looking at this test in chromium (which looks even worse using GDI text).  Notice how the "It should stretch to fit the window" text is so poorly spaced (and it's also difficult to select).

It's possible this is fixed in the latest sources.  I was testing using 5528.1.
Comment 1 Eric Seidel (no email) 2008-10-21 13:01:23 PDT 
I expect we're doing something silly here, like aligning to pixel boundaries before applying the viewbox transform.
Comment 2 Nikolas Zimmermann 2011-02-01 04:02:43 PST 
The patch on bug 12448 fixes this problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 12448 ***