On Sun, Oct 12, 2014, at 08:36 AM, Raglan T. Tiger wrote: > My task is to make the Mac view and controller to capture the selected > font. The rendering of the font is all good. So now I just need kerning > data that I can put into a KERNINGPAIR structure and my task is complete.
That's a means, not an end. The purpose of your program isn't to extract kerning information. The question now thrice posed to you: what does your program *do* that involves kerning information? > > I have read the reference from Kyle that describes the 'kerx' extended > kerning table which is supported on OS X 10.7 and iOS 7 onward. Our > deployment is 10.5 and greater. > > I suspect that the 'kern' table will give what I need. > > How does one get a pointer to a 'kern' table for a specified font? Not all fonts have a 'kern' table, so this is not the way forward. It sounds like you're trying rrrealllly hard to avoid admitting to yourself that your model code needs to be rewritten. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
