GFX-windows: issues with italic text with Arial and Tahoma

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

When I run the following code, it displays ABCDEF in various styles.
And when the text is displayed in italics, it has a significant offset and shows up lower than the rest.

This looks wrong somehow...

gfx.init("name")

gfx.setfont(1, "Arial", 20, 0)
gfx.drawstr("ABCDEF")

gfx.setfont(1, "Arial", 20, 16896)
gfx.drawstr("ABCDEF")

gfx.setfont(1, "Arial", 20, 0)
gfx.drawstr("ABCDEF")

gfx.setfont(1, "Arial", 20, 18688)
gfx.drawstr("ABCDEF")

gfx.setfont(1, "Arial", 20, 0)
gfx.drawstr("ABCDEF")

It seems to be only with Arial and only with italic, from what I see.

Tested on Windows 7, Reaper 6.44x64

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

And another issue I found, this time with italic in Tahoma:

Some letters are "cut off", as if they are outside of a boundary box, as the letters "edler" in this example:

gfx.init("name", 1800, 200)

gfx.setfont(1, "Tahoma", 40, 0)
gfx.drawstr("Original Text")

gfx.setfont(1, "Tahoma", 40, 16896)
gfx.drawstr("Fat Text")

gfx.setfont(1, "Tahoma", 40, 0)
gfx.drawstr("wi")

gfx.setfont(1, "Tahoma", 40, 18688)
gfx.drawstr("edler")

gfx.setfont(1, "Tahoma", 40, 0)
gfx.drawstr("weniger")

[DarkStar]

Arial problem confirmed here; font sizes 19 and 21 italics are off too



Tahoma cut-offs confirmed too.

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

bumpalicious

[Justin]

The right edges of italics getting cut a bit we can fix. The Y offset on Arial seems to be specific to Arial... Maybe it has a different ascender metric. Hard to correct that without potentially breaking a lot.

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

Hmm, so I need to manually fix it by adding an offset in these cases... :/

Is this the same case with Tahoma?

[DarkStar]

Don't use Arial

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

Originally Posted by DarkStar

Don't use Arial

I need to. For UI consistency reasons.