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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <bike1tFng0nU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <e4879d54-2853-4973-89e2-3e687d613061@googlegroups.com> |
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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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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