Re: [ft-devel] Kerning support in freetype

[Russell Shaw]

Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've got a couple of qustions about kerning support in FreeType:
>
> 1) freetype docs claim that FT_Get_Kerning returns values in 26.6 format,
> but it looks like they are not.

It is 26.6, because i've been using it.

> 2) is it possible to get a number of all available kerning pairs? looking
> at the freetype sources it seems ft has all the info, just there is no way
> to get it.

Probably no function to do that, because why would you need to?

> 3) returned kerning doesn't match Wndows one, probably due to 1).

Must be a bug.

> I have a test program for win32 GetKerningPairs and FT_Get_Kerning.
> It basically creates an Arial face with a fixed pixel size (1200) and
> retrieves kerning information for some known pairs.
>
> Since I'm a Wine developer I'm interested in a behaviour which would match
> Windows' one, particularly match in returned values, and getting a number
> of all available kerning pairs just like GetKerningPairs(hdc, 0, NULL) 
> does.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.