On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 05:08 -0700, Phil Race wrote: > > Peter B. West wrote On 08/15/06 04:29,: > > >What's the situation with kerning? > > > >Can I assume that kerning is not supported on Type1 fonts? If so, are > >there any plans to enable the reading of afm files associated with Type1 > >fonts to obtains kerning data? > > > > > > Not supported and there are no plans. > > >Even with truetype fonts, I don't seem to get any result from setting > >the KERNING attribute to KERNING_ON. I've tried generating > >AttributedStrings using both FONT_FAMILY, etc, and using an instance of > >FONT. No difference. Is there a secret? > > > > > > It should work, assuming you are letting JDK do the layout. I know you > were using > GlyphVector. 'Font.layoutGlyphVector' should apply the kerning but > createGlyphVector() > doesn't process the text and just assigns default advances so maybe > that's your problem? >
Phil, I ran some quick tests using a LineBreakMeasurer and TextLayout. Text was "New wave away WAVE AWAY", which should show some variation. The advance of the layout did not vary. I'll have a look at the GlyphVectors. Peter =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
