Web and WebWorks Development

[biggerCC]

Hey there,

could somebody please confirm my current issue regarding the use of custom fonts on BB10 (Simulator & Dev Alpha)? I used two Frutiger licensed webfonts (TTF format) and included them in CSS with @font-face as following:

@charset "utf-8";

@font-face {
   font-family: frutiger45;
   src: url('../assets/fonts/frutiger45.ttf') format('truetype');
}

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The font is displayed, but there is a obvious kerning (whitespice between characters) issue. See my screenshot below.

Kerning works fine on "the other platforms" ©.

Oh, I just noticed the same behaviour on the PlayBook. So, this is an old problem? Any workaround? I couldn't find any topics on this in the forums...

[astanley]

This looks like something I'd want the browser dev team to take a look at more closely.

Can you please submit this as an issue tracker bug here, and I can escalate internally?   Please link to this forums thread in the issue tracker item as well.

[biggerCC]

Thanks. I'm not sure if I chose the right category and version, since this is more a general browser issue and less linked to a specific OS. However I suppose the focus is currently on BB10...

Here's my report: https://www.blackberry.com/jira/browse/BBTEN-112

[astanley]

Does this font scaling issue still occur in the latest BlackBerry 10 OS - version 10.0.9.388 ?

[pmulkins]

I am having the same problem.  I tried using many different fonts from Font Squirrel.  I am using Dev Alpha A, 10.0.9.388. Please note the "fonts" folder is located in the root folder, and my css and js files are located in the same directory without issue. 

Here is the code I was using:

``@font-face {

font-family: 'VAG';
src: url('fonts/VAG-HandWritten-webfont.eot');
src: url('fonts/VAG-HandWritten-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('fonts/VAG-HandWritten-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('fonts/VAG-HandWritten-webfont.svg') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}

h1 {
font-family: 'VAG', Arial, sans-serif
}``

I have tried using web inspector, but nothing seems to pop up. Any help would be greatly apprecaited. 

Regards,

Phil