RE: [Freetype] Help with kerning troubles?

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 4:22 PM -0800 11/1/01, Steve Johnson wrote:
> I've only tried this with Truetype so far.  I'm loading fonts from a
> file.  I've seen the problem on both our platforms...Win2K and Solaris.

        Good to know it's consistant!


> I'm  using using FreeType 2.0.3, but I just downloaded 2.0.5 and tried
> my code with that version and I get the same behavior.

        And also that the version doesn't matter. Thanks for trying that!


> Specifically, I'm currently looking at the "Av" combination using
> Microsoft's standard Arial font.  I pulled down a font editor that let
> me see the kerning values.  The value for this pair is -37.

        Sounds about right.


>  I can see
> that this value is coming in properly and being used in what seem like
> reasonable calculations to come up with the final offset value.  All
> seems well except that the offset isn't visually correct.
        What is the offset that you are getting then?   You are
saying that the value is read in correct from the file, but that when
you query the kerning tables, you get the wrong values?


Leonard
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