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From: lost_bits1...@hotmail.ca
To: w...@gnu.org
CC: freetype-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: RE: [ft-devel] character spacing
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:15:58 -0700
Thanks for your reply -
Note, however, that today many
and almost any other
number. Is this not something that should be dealt with by the kerning table,
or do I now need to look for a different font?
Thank-you again!LD
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:27:04 +0200
To: lost_bits1...@hotmail.ca
CC: freetype-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] character
; freetype-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] character spacing
On 09/19/11 01:21, Louis Desjardins wrote:
Also - as I have already invested much time in Freetype I no longer have
time
to integrate a different library such as Pango - is there somewhere I can
obtain freely
My original problem persists though and there is too much spacing
between certain characters, such as F and a, and between 1 and
almost any other number. Is this not something that should be dealt
with by the kerning table, or do I now need to look for a different
font?
I think that your
LD == Louis Desjardins lost_bits1...@hotmail.ca writes:
LD between 1 and almost any other number
Most fonts have ascii digits (and some other glyphs often used with
them) designed to be monowidth, even when the rest of the font is
proportional. This is to ensure that columns of digits line up
In order to draw my text, I currently make calls to:
FT_Get_Char_IndexFT_Load_GlyphFT_Render_Glyph
and then I store the bitmap of each ascii character to memory, so that once I
actually render the character, I can simply call on the stored bitmap.
The
To: lost_bits1...@hotmail.ca
CC: freetype-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] character spacing
From: w...@gnu.org
In order to draw my text, I currently make calls to:
FT_Get_Char_Index
FT_Load_Glyph
FT_Render_Glyph
and then I store the bitmap of each ascii character
Also - as I have already invested much time in Freetype I no longer
have time to integrate a different library such as Pango - is there
somewhere I can obtain freely distributable TTF files that contains
kerning information that can be handled by Freetype?
If a font doesn't contain a `GPOS'
