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| Started by | luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> |
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| First post | 2014-01-01 00:14 -0800 |
| Last post | 2014-01-02 20:29 +0000 |
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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
| From | luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> |
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| Date | 2014-01-01 00:14 -0800 |
| Subject | Does gs (or any other interpreter) do any sort of kerning when using fonts with kerning tables? |
| Message-ID | <e4879d54-2853-4973-89e2-3e687d613061@googlegroups.com> |
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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| From | Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> |
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| Date | 2014-01-01 23:08 -0700 |
| Subject | Re: Does gs (or any other interpreter) do any sort of kerning when using fonts with kerning tables? |
| Message-ID | <bike1tFng0nU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #1755 |
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'? > http://www.tinaja.com/glib/gonzotut.pdf -- Many thanks, Don Lancaster voice phone: (928)428-4073 Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552 rss: http://www.tinaja.com/whtnu.xml email: don@tinaja.com Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com
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| From | Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2014-01-02 16:56 -0800 |
| Subject | Re: Does gs (or any other interpreter) do any sort of kerning when using fonts with kerning tables? |
| Message-ID | <a7692d2b-1273-4a0d-a9de-3f47dfc3ddbd@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #1757 |
On Thursday, January 2, 2014 1:08:05 AM UTC-5, Don Lancaster wrote: > On 1/1/2014 1:14 AM, luser- -droog wrote: > > > > ? Do any other interpreters (particularly ghostscript) > > offer the capability to automatically kern the text drawn > > by 'show'? > > http://www.tinaja.com/glib/gonzotut.pdf The Gonzo utilities are not a Postscript interpreter, nor do they read kerning tables from the font definition.
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| From | Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2014-01-02 16:51 -0800 |
| Subject | Re: Does gs (or any other interpreter) do any sort of kerning when using fonts with kerning tables? |
| Message-ID | <4d667164-23bd-4315-a39f-d64890a6b542@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #1757 |
On Thursday, January 2, 2014 1:08:05 AM UTC-5, Don Lancaster wrote: > On 1/1/2014 1:14 AM, luser- -droog wrote: > > > ? Do any other interpreters (particularly ghostscript) offer the > > capability to automatically kern the text drawn by 'show'? > > http://www.tinaja.com/glib/gonzotut.pdf For one thing, the Gonzo utilities are not a Postscript interpreter (which luser-droog was asking about) but a collection of Postscript functions which are executed within a Postscript interpreter. For another thing, from what I can see, Gonzo does not read any kerning hints from the font (which luser-droog stated xpost can do now); it instead allows use of markup to manually set kerning.
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| From | rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) |
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| Date | 2014-01-02 20:29 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <la4i84$1fi$1@reader1.panix.com> |
| In reply to | #1755 |
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. -- -- Rod -- rodd(at)polylogics(dot)com
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