Bug 34236 – When using SVG fonts with @font-face word-spacing and text-align: justify are not being honored

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: SVG

[michael lewis]

Created attachment 47582 [details]
html for test file (you need the SVG too)

When using @font-face with the src being of svg format, in Safari on OS X and iPhone, and chrome word-spacing is not being honored.  There's also a strange behaviour, when you insert a span, it does advance the text to the position where it *should* be if the word-spacing were being honored, even when the span breaks up a word (without any spaces).

I've attached a test file which demonstrates both these behaviors with an SVG font file.

[michael lewis]

Created attachment 47583 [details]
SVG to go along with html

[michael lewis]

Did I file this in the wrong place?

[Adam Roben (:aroben)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Did I file this in the wrong place?

No, this is the right place.

[Adam Roben (:aroben)]

Created attachment 54945 [details]
test case downloads font from Bugzilla

[Adam Roben (:aroben)]

Created attachment 54946 [details]
test case that downloads font from Bugzilla

[Adam Roben (:aroben)]

Niko, any idea what's going on here?

[Nikolas Zimmermann]

Sorry for the late reply. I guess the problem happens when using SVGFonts in HTML.
When drawing an SVG font inside SVG, we're explicitely disabling any spacing handling, as the SVG Text layouting code handles this on it's own. I suspect that we're also disabling that logic when using SVG Fonts in HTML, which is wrong.

Going to check this during the next days, hopefully!

[Nikolas Zimmermann]

Changed component to SVG, so it shows up in my all-svg-bugs search.

See also bug 32227.

[Nikolas Zimmermann]

Fixed in r89233.