Excellent! I'll check it out.... On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 08.12.2017 um 01:28 schrieb Matthew Self: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a newbie question about kerning in PDFs. >> >> When rendering text from a PDF, is kerning info from the font used to >> adjust the positions of the rendered characters automatically? >> > > No > > >> Or do apps that write PDF files need to read the kerning data and >> individually adjust the positions of the characters when writing the PDF? >> > > Yes > > >> If the latter, I see PDPageContentStream.showText() for creating a Tj >> operator, but I don't see a method like showTextWithSpacing() for creating >> a TJ operator (which is what I presume you would need to do). >> > > Indeed, but it is coming in the next version: showTextWithPositioning(). > You can test a snapshot version. > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/org/a > pache/pdfbox/pdfbox-app/2.0.9-SNAPSHOT/ > > Issue: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3992 > > Tilman > > >> Is that something I could add, or is there a reason it hasn't been added >> already? >> >> Thank you. >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
