Gnochm font too small

Confirmed in Fiesty

Confirmed in Gutsy

Problem is still existing in Gutsy.

Confirmed in Ubuntu 7.04
Additionally, table description after a table is also not showing properly.

Confirmed in Hardy alpha4.

confirmed in fedora 8( gnochm 0.9.10 ).

Confirmed in Hardy (using default 0.9.9)

gnochm is written in python and uses the gtkhtml2 python interface, so the issue is in package 'python-gtkhtml2', or the libraries this uses 'libgtkhtml2-0'. The zoom_in(), zoom_out() and zoom_reset() methods that are called on the HTML document object are entirely in these libraries, so this is certainly not an issue in gnochm directly.

One temporary workaround, would be for gnochm for call zoom_in() say 4 times internally, but this is too much of a hack.

The zoom_*() methods are implemented in libgtkhtml2-0, and the gtkhtml libraries does what it's supposed to do, in that HTML rendering is of the correct size.

Thus, the root cause is with the CHM files specifying a small font; they're all tested on windows platforms, where presumably the font-size gets adjusted for, in favour legacy compatibility, so we need to add this 'hack' to be compliant give correct rendering results w.r.t. Microsoft's CHM/help viewer.

Attached patch for fix.

How can we get this reviewed and in-place for Intrepid?

Hi,

I'll update this package for Intrepid.

Hi Allisson - thanks for your help and input!

It would be great if you can check on any CHM files if you find a similar issue, and/or if the extra magnification level is too much and should eg be more conservative.

Thanks!

gnochm (0.9.11-2ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/04_gnochm-fontsize.patch
    - Added patch from Daniel J Blueman to fix small fontsize. (LP: #86889)

 -- Allisson Azevedo <email address hidden> Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:30:22 -0300

Hi,

I'd like to sponsor this fix, however I have two concerns.

Firstly, I don't have any chm files to hand, could someone
point me to one I can test with? It can be in a package in
Ubuntu, on the web, or attached to this report, I don't mind.

Secondly, there is a bug report about this upstream:

  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1780648&group_id=96084&atid=613578

could you please attach the patch there and see if anyone
comments on it?

Thanks,

James

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Confirmed in intrepid, no fix yet in the updates?

Still the same tiny font in Jaunty.

Hi,

If someone had done as I had asked and given me a pointer to a
.chm file that I could use to test the fix then this bug would have
been fixed 6 months ago.

Are you able to supply the needed information?

Thanks,

James

Here are some example chm files:
http://www.autohotkey.com/download/AutoHotkey.zip
http://tartarus.org/~simon/putty-snapshots/putty.chm
http://www.freebooksource.com/C-%20C++/C-C++-Books/Addison%20Wesley%20-%20Exceptional%20C++%20-%2047%20Engineering%20Puzzles,%20P.chm

Thanks.

The upstream author has some questions at

   http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1780648&group_id=96084&atid=613578

"Thanks for reporting this - so are the fonts too small for every document
you open? Would it fix the problem if we could save the "default" zoom?"

If you have a sourceforge account then please respond there, otherwise
I will relay all messages to that bug report.

Thanks,

James

I think this has already been answered on the sourceforge page. The problem does not affect _all_ chm files, for example http://www.ctan.org/get/info/LatexHelpBook/Bibtex.chm appears in the right size by default.

I see that the patch above just zooms in 5 times; this would mean that some files would be displayed with a too large font.

gnochm was removed in 10.10 and later.