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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XDrawImageString bug
Message-ID: <8908041322.AA00498@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 4 Aug 89 13:22:39 GMT
References: <1850@garya.Solbourne.COM>
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    Here's a demo:
    Fails on X11R3 and the pre release R4 Xlib

Your program produces correct output on a Sun R3 server, and on a server
in our current development system.  Either your server ddx is broken, or
you misunderstand what bits should be drawn.  The "background" fill is only
done based on font-ascent and font-descent, not based on maxbounds.  For the
font in question, font-ascent is defined as 11, even though some glyphs
extend higher than that.  If you believe the Courier fonts should be
altered to make them more directly useful for image text, you can plead
your case to Adobe and Digital, from whence the fonts came.