Just for fun, you could get the GlyphVector and tweak character position to adjust kerning. (I've done that to implement tracking for an entire line of text, much like the tracking adjustment in Photoshop). From what I've read, rendering a GlyphVector is the fastest way to draw text.
David
Doug Felt wrote:
At 02:06 PM 2/14/2003, John Smith wrote:
I am wondering if JVM's rendering engine implements the kern tracking mechanism in true type font?
No, but we've thought about it. A lot of text code fast-paths the rendering/measuring process for Latin-1 by assuming character advances are independent of context. Kerning breaks this, but some people want kerning for better quality output. It would take some work to avoid impacting text rendering performance, which is why this has stayed on the back burner.
There might be a bug filed on this, if so, vote for it, otherwise, please add one if you have a need for kerning.
Doug
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