Re: [ft-devel] Kerning support in freetype

[Russell Shaw]

Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> "Russell Shaw" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > 1) freetype docs claim that FT_Get_Kerning returns values in 26.6 
> > > format,
> > > but it looks like they are not.
> >
> > It is 26.6, because i've been using it.
> >
> > > 2) is it possible to get a number of all available kerning pairs? 
> > > looking
> > > at the freetype sources it seems ft has all the info, just there is 
> > > no way
> > > to get it.
> >
> > Probably no function to do that, because why would you need to?
>
> I need it to implement behaviour of a win32 API GetKerningPairs, which
> is able to return total amount of kerning pairs available. I don't see
> why that info shouldn't be available for an application which wants to
> cache it for any reason.

If freetype has already loaded all the pairs from the file, then cacheing
wouldn't be needed (unless you really need them all to emulate some api).

> > > 3) returned kerning doesn't match Wndows one, probably due to 1).
> >
> > Must be a bug.
>
> I'm attaching my test program. Using FreeType from CVS it prints:
>
> face Arial Regular has kerning
> kerning between 32 and 65 is -2:0
> kerning between 32 and 84 is -1:0
> kerning between 70 and 44 is -3:0
>
> which is a bit small for a 1200 pixels font face.

Note that your printfs are dividing by 64 (>>6).

> Using Win32 API GetKerningPairsW I get:
>
> wFirst 32, wSecond 65, iKernAmount -59
> wFirst 32, wSecond 84, iKernAmount -19
> wFirst 70, wSecond 44, iKernAmount -119
>
> which looks reasonable for a 1200 pixel sized font face.

After taking out the >>6 in the printfs, i get:

face Arial Regular has kerning
kerning between 32 and 65 is -66:0
kerning between 32 and 84 is -22:0
kerning between 70 and 44 is -133:0

using: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf