Bug#359835: No kerning

Ross Burton ross at burtonini.com
Wed Mar 29 09:10:01 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 09:46 +0200, debbug2 at danisch.de wrote:
> I found that programs making use of this library (e.g. inkscape or
> libpango1-ruby) render text without any kerning, e.g. when rendering
> the text "Test" in font Arial, the bounding boxes of 'T' and 'e' do
> not overlap, although they should.

Interestingly I've found that in Arial and many other fonts there is no
kerning, but with DejaVu Sans/FreeSans/FreeSerif there is.

Ross
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