diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a34f8e8eb..69b22bc05 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,34 @@
+2012-03-11  Werner Lemberg  <wl@gnu.org>
+
+	[autofit] Return correct linear advance width values.
+
+	This was quite a subtle bug which accidentally showed up with glyph
+	`afii10023' of arial.ttf (version 2.76).  This glyph is a composite;
+	the first component, `E', has an advance width of 1366 font units,
+	while the advance width of the composite itself (which looks like
+	uppercase `E' with dieresis) is 1367 font units.  I think this is
+	actually a bug in the font itself, because there is no reason that
+	this glyph has not the same width as uppercase `E' without the
+	dieresis.  Anyway, it helped identify this problem.
+
+	Using the TrueType hinter, the correct value (1367) of `afii10023'
+	was returned, but the autohinter mysteriously returned 1366.
+
+	Digging in the code showed that the autohinter recursively calls
+	FT_Load_Glyph to load the glyph, adding the FT_LOAD_NO_SCALE load
+	flag.  However, the `linearHoriAdvance' field is still returned as a
+	scaled value.  To avoid scaling twice, the old code in autofit reset
+	`linearHoriAdvance', using the `horiAdvance' field.  This seemed to
+	work since FT_LOAD_NO_SCALE was in use, but it failed actually,
+	because `horiAdvance' is defined as the distance of the first
+	subglyph's phantom points, which in turn are initialized using the
+	advance width of the first subglyph.  And as the given example
+	shows, these widths can differ.
+
+	* src/autofit/afloader.c (af_loader_load_g): Temporarily set
+	FT_LOAD_LINEAR_DESIGN while calling FT_Load_Glyph to get unscaled
+	values for the linear advance widths.
+
 2012-03-10  Werner Lemberg  <wl@gnu.org>
 
 	[truetype] Fix SSW instruction.
diff --git a/src/autofit/afloader.c b/src/autofit/afloader.c
index 34ef9d809..dabd6193d 100644
--- a/src/autofit/afloader.c
+++ b/src/autofit/afloader.c
@@ -104,9 +104,11 @@
     AF_GlyphHints     hints    = &loader->hints;
     FT_GlyphSlot      slot     = face->glyph;
     FT_Slot_Internal  internal = slot->internal;
+    FT_Int32          flags;
 
 
-    error = FT_Load_Glyph( face, glyph_index, load_flags );
+    flags = load_flags | FT_LOAD_LINEAR_DESIGN;
+    error = FT_Load_Glyph( face, glyph_index, flags );
     if ( error )
       goto Exit;
 
@@ -124,10 +126,6 @@
       FT_Vector_Transform( &loader->trans_delta, &inverse );
     }
 
-    /* set linear metrics */
-    slot->linearHoriAdvance = slot->metrics.horiAdvance;
-    slot->linearVertAdvance = slot->metrics.vertAdvance;
-
     switch ( slot->format )
     {
     case FT_GLYPH_FORMAT_OUTLINE: