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Re: Does gs (or any other interpreter) do any sort of kerning when using fonts with kerning tables?

From Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: Does gs (or any other interpreter) do any sort of kerning when using fonts with kerning tables?
Date 2014-01-01 23:08 -0700
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On 1/1/2014 1:14 AM, luser- -droog wrote:
> Working on xpost's font module, my collaborator Vincent Torri added support in the 'show' operator for automatically kerning if the necessary tables are present in the font file. I haven't found anything in the plrm about doing this, but I don't want to remove obvious features that are written and working. Would it be appropriate to control this with a variable in the font dictionary? Something like
>
>    /AutoKern Boolean
>
> ? Do any other interpreters (particularly ghostscript) offer the capability to automatically kern the text drawn by 'show'?
>

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Does gs (or any other interpreter) do any sort of kerning when using fonts with kerning tables? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-01 00:14 -0800
  Re: Does gs (or any other interpreter) do any sort of kerning when using   fonts with kerning tables? Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2014-01-01 23:08 -0700
    Re: Does gs (or any other interpreter) do any sort of kerning when using   fonts with kerning tables? Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> - 2014-01-02 16:56 -0800
    Re: Does gs (or any other interpreter) do any sort of kerning when using   fonts with kerning tables? Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> - 2014-01-02 16:51 -0800
  Re: Does gs (or any other interpreter) do any sort of kerning when using fonts with kerning tables? rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) - 2014-01-02 20:29 +0000

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