Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript 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) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1388694597 1522 166.84.1.3 (2 Jan 2014 20:29:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 20:29:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:1758 In article , 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, 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. -- -- Rod -- rodd(at)polylogics(dot)com