Can anyone explain the purpose of the setting “Pair kerning” under “Format >
Character > Position”?
For some time now Libre Office has implemented the principal Opentype features,
most notably kerning and ligature substitution, by means of the options
“kern=1” and “liga=1,” respectively,
In LibreOffice 4.1.0.1, if I open a document containing Helvetica font and
export to PDF, the Helvetica font has horrible kerning--almost all spaces
between words are removed, making the PDF very difficult to read. If I open
the same document in LibreOffice 3.4.5, it exports to PDF just
In LibreOffice 4.1.0.1, if I open a document containing Helvetica font and
export to PDF, the Helvetica font has horrible kerning--almost all spaces
between words are removed, making the PDF very difficult to read. If I open the
same document in LibreOffice 3.4.5, it exports to PDF just
(or something) today
but never quite got around to doing anything i'd planned for today!
Regard from
Tom :)
From: pfrost pfr...@redhat.com
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thursday, 18 July 2013, 19:17
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Kerning issue
