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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 707713
Owner:
drott@chromium.org
Closed: Apr 2017
Cc:
bunge...@chromium.org
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug

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issue 707713



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some text is poorly spaced

Reported by billdill...@gmail.com, Mar 5 2017 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
go to https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askcore/2016/08/16/display-scaling-changes-for-the-windows-10-anniversary-update/ and look at the first paragraph ("Today we have guest author for this blog") and look at the inconsistent spacing between some of the letters, like "Today" "blog" "Anniversary" and a few more, it looks ridiculous and it makes it hard to read. Firefox doesn't have this problem at all. I included screenshots of what I'm seeing. As I'm filing this report, I noticed the word "spaced" in the "Please enter a one-line summary:" has a big space between "c" and "e"

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
see above

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 56.0.2924.87  Channel: stable
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0
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Comment 1 by billdill...@gmail.com, Mar 5 2017

fftext.png
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Comment 2 by billdill...@gmail.com, Mar 5 2017

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Comment 3 by nyerramilli@chromium.org, Mar 6 2017

Labels: Needs-Triage-M56

Comment 4 by sureshkumari@chromium.org, Mar 6 2017

Labels: -Needs-Triage-M56 M-59
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Able to reproduce the issue on Windows-7 using chrome stable version 56.0.2924.87 and canary 59.0.3030.0 with the steps mentioned in comment#0.
This is Non-regression issue, observed from M30 #30.0.1550.0 and marking it as untriaged to get more inputs.

Note:Issue not observed in Mac-10.12.2 and Linux Ubuntu 14.04.

Thanks..

Comment 5 by billdill...@gmail.com, Mar 6 2017 

Something else to add, I just checked this on a Windows 10 hidpi laptop (surface pro 4) and the text looks fine, so I guess this is either a Windows 7 problem or a low/normal dpi problem

Comment 6 by wfh@chromium.org, Mar 6 2017

Components: Blink>Fonts
Owner: drott@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
drott can you take a look at this one?

Comment 7 by drott@chromium.org, Mar 8 2017

Cc: bunge...@chromium.org
Potentially related to  issue 645055  and our rendering mode configuration, I'll take a closer look tomorrow.

Comment 8 by billdill...@gmail.com, Mar 18 2017 

just adding some more feedback here: on the google canada homepage google.ca, again this issue of text being too spaced out is present in the "Google.ca offered in: Français" . This issue is not present in Firefox
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Comment 9 by billdill...@gmail.com, Mar 18 2017 

and another example, look at how squished the "C" is! (red arrow)
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Comment 10 by drott@chromium.org, Mar 20 2017 

Sounds similar to spacing issues in cyrillic, issue 595803.

Comment 11 by drott@chromium.org, Apr 3 2017

Blocking: 707713

Comment 12 by drott@chromium.org, Apr 3 2017

Blocking: -707713
Mergedinto: 707713
Status: Duplicate (was: Assigned)
Thanks for the report. Merging into 707713 where we have a new reliable reproduction, even on Windows 10, and a better isolation on the core of the spacing issue.

Comment 13 by drott@chromium.org, Apr 3 2017

Blocking: 707713
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