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[ft-devel] Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals
From: |
Miroslaw Kwasniak |
Subject: |
[ft-devel] Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:47:36 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
Hi,
I found a thread from december 2004 about this topic.
I think that all conclusions were wrong.
You can divide hair-line to subpixels ;) but it may be another story.
I think the general problem with kerning is a wrong interpretation of ttf font
by freetype!
My story begun with a hevy kerned (bad) font(see [1] at end) I've tried
install in latex. After small investigation I found that kernings generated
by ttf2tex/ttf2tfm are wrong. Earlier version of this font[2] has no
kernings. Both look similiar in fontforge but very different in pdflatex :(
Playing with Fontforge I saw a message that default EM-size for postscript
is 1000 where this font has 2048. This font saved as new TTF with EM 1000
gives proper results in pdflatex[3] - fragments labeled with F1/F3 are
written with gotykposzarpany1[2](old w/o kerning) and with problematic font
gotykposzarpany3[1].
I tried this bad font[1] with ftstring (FreeType 2.1.10) with the same
problem - see left-bottom window on screenshot[4]. O this image upper row
is with font transformed to EM1000, lower original with EM2048. Left side -
ftstring, right fontforge.
I can't provide transformed font - licence issues.
Mirek
PS. I'm not subscribed.
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[1]
http://www.zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl/users/mirek/latex/gotyk1/gotykposzarpany3.zip
[2]
http://www.zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl/users/mirek/latex/gotyk1/gotykposzarpany1.zip
[3] http://www.zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl/users/mirek/latex/gotyk1/gotyk2.pdf
[4]
http://www.zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl/users/mirek/latex/gotyk1/gotyk-freetype2.png