Re: kerning with Ming

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Merca, could you please try with current development version
from CVS HEAD ?

As of 2010-05-24 the kerning issue should be fixed thanks
to Nick Lewis (in Cc).

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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 05:55:36PM +0100, Merca wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I?m stuck for one week on kerning problem with Ming library and I?m
> desperate to find any solution.
>  
> I?m using Ming 0.2.a since 20002 in a commercial web site and it works fine
> especially with kerning in text.
> I?m migrating now to a new server and I have installed the version 0.4.3 and
> I cannot succeed to have kerning in text like I did.
>  
> With FDB fonts :
> As the author of the patch has warning,  ttf2fft tool is not working for
> kerning. I figured out there is no kerning pair in the output fft file. I
> found many errors.  I have debugged the script and it generate now fdb files
> with kerning pair info. I can provide this corrected script online for
> anyone but for the moment my fdb files with kerning info don?t work yet. I
> don?t really know the cause. Is there any things I have missed ? A special
> instruction to enable kerning ? Has anyone succeed a good kerning running
> with a FDB file ?
> Here is my script :
>  <http://test.cartevisite.be/studio/cgi/kern.cgi>
> http://test.cartevisite.be/studio/cgi/kern.cgi
> The V and A must be much closer.
> I join the source of my perl script and can send the FDB file I have created
> with my ttf2fft. 
>  
> With TTF fonts :
> I never succeed to have kerning. I?m using Freetype 2.3.9. The kerning is
> normally executed by Freetype. I read somewhere that ?basic ttf was
> implemented?. So my question is simple : does kerning ever worked with TTF
> fonts with ming 0.4.3 ?
>  
> Thanks a lot for your help. If I can find a solution, I?m ready to publish
> the solution on one page to help anyone having real kerning.
>  
> Best regards.
>  
> Benoît DUFOUR
>  
> benoit@xxxxxxxxx
> +33 (0)5 59 24 09 02
>  
>  


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