Re: [ft-devel] is it possible to retrieve whole kerning table?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> It would be nice, though, if freetype had some kind of higher level
> interface to the kerning tables, so that other font formats than
> TrueType could be supported as well.

This won't happen.  Please remember that modern OpenType fonts don't
have a `kern' table but a `kern' feature in the `GPOS' table.  To use
this data correctly you have to apply kerning not on single glyph
pairs but on glyph strings.  With other words, you need a layout
engine which can handle OpenType.  Use Pango, Qt, or ICU.

If you really need only the `kern' table it's really the easiest
solution if you write some code by yourself which fits your needs.


    Werner