there's an open RFE 4339577: Adding kerning to the text layout process
So still in the future. Sorry.
-Phil.
Jürg Lehni wrote:
When will Java finally support correct font metrics? Until now, Java(2D) seems to ignore kerning tables in both PostScript and TrueType fonts completely. Every high quality, non-monospaced font defines hundreds of kerning pairs, ignoring them completely results in medium quality rendering.
I'm not talking about inter character spacing, I'm talking about the kerning values that are defined for special character pairs (e.g. W-A, A-V, T-y, ...). Only when these values are taken into account while rendering, the font is displayed correctly.
Some months ago, I've posted a workaround to this list that uses the iText library to load the kerning tables from truetype fonts seperately and then uses these values to correct the glyph vectors. The code is very simple, only a few lines are needed. This should really make it somehow into the next java release:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ msg02803.html
Best
Jürg
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