Bug#359835: No kerning
Loïc Minier
lool at dooz.org
Sun Oct 1 10:42:16 UTC 2006
Hi,
This is a followup for Debian bug <http://bugs.debian.org/359835>.
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006, 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.
I tried with recent pango and inkscape, font Arial, and saw the
kerning. However, I am not sure inkscape uses Pango for the rendering
in the drawing area. I tried with Gedit to use Arial, and saw no
kerning.
Perhaps application need to turn it on explicitely?
Bye,
--
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>
More information about the Pkg-gnome-maintainers
mailing list