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    copied!<p>I am trying to reduce the line spacing in a TextView by setting a negative 'add' to TextView.setLineSpacing(). It works well except that the bottom line get truncated. </p> <p>Main layout</p> <p></p> <pre><code>&lt;TextView android:id="@+id/text_view" android:padding="dp" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" android:layout_centerVertical="true" tools:context=".MainActivity" /&gt; </code></pre> <p></p> <p>Main activity: (notice the </p> <pre><code>package com.font_test; import android.app.Activity; import android.graphics.Typeface; import android.os.Bundle; import android.widget.TextView; public class MainActivity extends Activity { @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); final Typeface typeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/custom_fonts.ttf"); final TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text_view); tv.setTypeface(typeface); tv.setTextSize(60); tv.setLineSpacing(-30f, 1f); // *** -30 to reduce line spacing tv.setBackgroundColor(0x280000ff); tv.setText("gggkiiikkk" + "\n" + "gikgikgik" + "\n" + "kigkigkig"); } } </code></pre> <p>This results in truncation at the bottom of the view (notice the 'g' at the bottom line):</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2GOOT.png" alt="Reducing the line spacing cuts the &#39;g&#39; at the bottom line"></p> <p>It seems that the problem is related to incorrect layout measurement. If I set the TextView to</p> <pre><code> android:layout_height="fill_parent" </code></pre> <p>It does render properly:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zyEOW.png" alt="Using &#39;fill_parent&#39; does not truncate the bottom line"></p> <p>Any idea how to fix it? I don't mind to have ugly workarounds if it helps. I also have access to FontForge and I can modify the font file if needed.</p>
 

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