Bad font kerning in (0.9.6.2 Mac OS)

• Aug 24, 2010 - 20:58
Type
Functional
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
closed
Project

I discovered that old 0.9.5 documents opened in 0.9.6.2 show bad font kerning. This happens also if the words are rewritten anew in 0.9.6.2 documents. Please see the attached files: Image1 shows 0.9.5 layout and Image2 shows 0.9.6.2 layout. The font used is the very common Palatino 10 pt. Mac OS 10.4.11 Power PC iBook G4.
Thank you for the time.

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Comments

I forgot to add that the full measure silences are not centered in the measure in 0.9.6.2 version but shifted to the left instead, as shown in the images.

As you can see, your example looks very good in 0.9.5.
On the contrary, it looks very ugly in 0.9.6.2, though the font is the default Helvetica (but the title and instrument font is changed into Times New Roman and also shows kerning problems).

Thank you for the interest.

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I agree with your comment (but not about dropping the support of MuseScore for Mac OSX 10.4).

In any case, why the font kerning is excellent in MuseScore 0.9.5 for Mac OSX 10.4?

Thanks!

Status (old) active closed

According to comment #6, it looks like it is fixed upstream for Qt 4.7 and requires no further action.

It should be fixed when MuseScore switches to Qt 4.7, but Qt 4.7 isn't even released yet so it could a while.