Re: [ft] question on FT number formats

[George Williams]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:15, Johannes Walther wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, are pfm or kerning at all so
> rarely used? According to the CVS, the bug must have
> been in for at least one year.
> I mean not that the kerning was just a little wrong
> but it produced huge gaps between characters, so I
> wonder why noone seems to have noticed that.
I would guess that:
  1) pfm is rarely used
        (even MS seems to have replaced it with a new format)
  2) FreeType isn't really the right place to get kerning information
        any more. With the advent of OpenType, kerning got more
        complicated and much of the smarts had to be moved up to the
        next library (pango or whatever).
         FreeType itself only supports the legacy formats.
So it isn't that no one does kerning, it's more that other file formats
tend to be used.