Merged revisions 4912-4914 via svnmerge from

mdboom · mdboom · commit 7ef1071cf84c · 2008-01-31T19:01:38.000Z
https://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matplotlib/branches/v0_91_maint ........ r4914 | mdboom | 2008-01-31 13:59:22 -0500 (Thu, 31 Jan 2008) | 2 lines Fix text spacing problems in PDF backend with some fonts. ........ svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=4915
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2008-01-31 Fix text spacing problems in PDF backend with *some* fonts,
+           such as STIXGeneral.
+
 2008-01-31 Fix \sqrt with radical number (broken by making [ and ]
            work below) - MGD
 
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py b/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py
@@ -801,8 +801,7 @@ def embedTTFType42(font, characters, descriptor):
                 ccode = ord(c)
                 gind = cmap.get(ccode) or 0
                 glyph = font.load_char(ccode, flags=LOAD_NO_HINTING)
-                # Why divided by 3.0 ??? Wish I knew... MGD
-                widths.append((ccode, cvt(glyph.horiAdvance) / 3.0))
+                widths.append((ccode, glyph.horiAdvance / 6))
                 if ccode < 65536:
                     cid_to_gid_map[ccode] = unichr(gind)
                 max_ccode = max(ccode, max_ccode)
