Hi,
a question on stackoverflow [1] prompted me to look into font kerning in
java. After a few
attempts I managed to enable it and imho indeed the result looks
prettier... but one has to
look carefully :-)
I've created a before and after example, with a "difference" image
highlighting in red what
changed (so that you don't get lost looking for the differences, mind, some
labels changed just slightly,
others in a more visible way):
- Before:
http://demo.geo-solutions.it/share/kerning/roads_no_kerning.png
- After: http://demo.geo-solutions.it/share/kerning/roads_kerning.png
- Difference: http://demo.geo-solutions.it/share/kerning/difference.png
I still need to run a few extra tests (and check how much performance we're
going to lose
by enabling it, as it requires a more complex layout), but given the
results, I'd be inclined
to enable this by default, with a vendor option to turn it off in case
someone finds issues with it.
Opinions?
Cheers
Andrea
[1]
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/233346/kerning-in-geoserver-labels
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