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Re: FYI pango/font status
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: FYI pango/font status |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:28:22 +0100 (CET) |
> > > * How do we deal with kerning in Pango? AFAIK, Pango does not
> > > read AFM/TFM files, so how can it compute kernings?
> >
> > IIRC Owen has mentioned that he plans to support reading of AFM
> > files for Type 1 fonts to get kerning. Kerning from OpenType
> > should be supported already (but I'm not sure).
>
> Do you know the status of these plans?
Owen, can you answer this, please? Since there are two mechanisms for
kerning (the `kern' table and the `kern' feature in the GPOS table) I
wonder how Pango is handling this.
Werner