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

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From	rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman)
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Subject	Re: Does gs (or any other interpreter) do any sort of kerning when using fonts with kerning tables?
Date	Thu, 2 Jan 2014 20:29:57 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <e4879d54-2853-4973-89e2-3e687d613061@googlegroups.com>,
luser- -droog  <mijoryx@yahoo.com> 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, 

The PLRM description of the show command is quite explicit in its
description of how the current point is adjusted. It is purely
dependent on the glyph width.

>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

Thats fine as long as the default is 'false' and it needs to be
explicitly enabled by the PostScript program in order to be active.

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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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