Kerning is not difficult to implement but it's impossible with the current structure of PdfChunk. I'm creating a special ColumnText that will support arabics bidi, kerning and ligatures. It will not be ready before October. You can have kerning now with little effort if all you need is to place text at absolute positions. I'll try to have a simple example prepared today so that you can start from there.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -----Original Message----- > From: John Hardy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:48 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] Support for kerning in iText > > Bruno and Paulo, I was wondering what your plans for supporting kerning in > iText. > > I noticed that the code for loading kern tables exists in the PDF font > classes and that there's a public getKerning() method for querying > character > pairs. The really disappointing thing is that none of this code appears > right now to be used by anything. This is a pity and seems to be a major > shortcoming when it coming to using iText for more high quality > typesetting > applications. > > Is kerning support likely to be implemented some time soon? Or > alternatively, do you have any working code that uses them that I could > have > a look at? Perhaps I might be able to help in finishing it. > > regards > > ...john > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board > for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! > http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
