Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals

[Robert Clark]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 15:15 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> >   I'm not sure if this is a problem with freetype or with something
> > higher up like pango, but I'm seeing a problem with letters being
> > placed too close together.  It's affecting capital letters followed
> > by lower case letters.
> 
> Before I start debugging: Which dpi are you using?  The images aren't
> at 72dpi...

  Those were at 96dpi.

> >   I'm not sure how to go about debugging this.
> 
> For us it's easiest if you use ftview from the ft2demos package.

  I thought that ftview only rendered glyphs and didn't handle kerning?
I've had a go with ftstring and that renders the "bad" way on both
systems. I've attached the output from:

     ftstring -m "Red Ken File Vera" -r 96 9 Vera.ttf

        Robert

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