Re: [ft] retrieving kerning infos misbehaves

[Jürgen Herz]

Hi,

unfortunately I got no replies on my previous posts. Seeing Johannes'
post gets some replies and even a bug was discovered I've new hopes
regarding my issue and try it again.

Jürgen Herz wrote:
> It's weird, the first call to FT_Get_Kerning() always fills in the right
> value for a kerning pair, regardless of any flag.
> 
> After a call to FT_Load_Glyph() later calls to FT_Get_Kerning() only
> give the right value if it has FT_KERNING_UNFITTED or
> FT_KERNING_UNSCALED set. Or when called with FT_KERNING_DEFAULT if
> FT_Load_Glyph() has FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING or FT_LOAD_NO_SCALE (which
> includes FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING) set.
> 
> But is FT_KERNING_DEFAULT set in FT_Get_Kerning() and FT_Load_Glyph()
> has either FT_LOAD_DEFAULT, FT_LOAD_RENDER or FT_LOAD_NO_BITMAP set,
> kerning infos are always 0.

I've to add that this only applies to TrueType fonts, Type1 fonts seem
not to have this issue.

Regards,
Jürgen