Hi, I found a thread from december 2004 about this topic. I think that all conclusions were wrong.
You can divide hair-line to subpixels ;) but it may be another story. I think the general problem with kerning is a wrong interpretation of ttf font by freetype! My story begun with a hevy kerned (bad) font(see [1] at end) I've tried install in latex. After small investigation I found that kernings generated by ttf2tex/ttf2tfm are wrong. Earlier version of this font[2] has no kernings. Both look similiar in fontforge but very different in pdflatex :( Playing with Fontforge I saw a message that default EM-size for postscript is 1000 where this font has 2048. This font saved as new TTF with EM 1000 gives proper results in pdflatex[3] - fragments labeled with F1/F3 are written with gotykposzarpany1[2](old w/o kerning) and with problematic font gotykposzarpany3[1]. I tried this bad font[1] with ftstring (FreeType 2.1.10) with the same problem - see left-bottom window on screenshot[4]. O this image upper row is with font transformed to EM1000, lower original with EM2048. Left side - ftstring, right fontforge. I can't provide transformed font - licence issues. Mirek PS. I'm not subscribed. ==================== [1] http://www.zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl/users/mirek/latex/gotyk1/gotykposzarpany3.zip [2] http://www.zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl/users/mirek/latex/gotyk1/gotykposzarpany1.zip [3] http://www.zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl/users/mirek/latex/gotyk1/gotyk2.pdf [4] http://www.zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl/users/mirek/latex/gotyk1/gotyk-freetype2.png _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
