+1 to enable by default. For good examples, have a look at Vesy St and West St and Park Pl West on the left. W/e and V/e pairs are some of those most in need of kerning, and the improvement looks great to me.
Kind regards, Ben. On 27/03/17 03:49, Andrea Aime wrote: > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > > > _______________________________________________ > GeoTools-Devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
