Your message dated: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:58:17 EST
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>> The issue isn't so much that that individual characters
>> are smaller (which some of them are), but that gschem does not
>> do any kerneling or hinting. Without kerneling, the lengths
>> are not going to be exactly the same.
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>Kerning. Kerneling is what you do to a Linux system ;-)
Yes, I knew it looked wrong. At least I didn't call
it kernaling. :)
>I could, in theory, provide you with a table of character widths for
>whatever font you're using, but even so, they vary among printers a
>little, and pixel rounding is going to throw you off anyway.
Ideally, the whole text rendering mechanism within gschem
should be augmented (not replaced mind you) to use pango (and the nice
gdk helper routines) and and render real fonts which match exactly to
the PS fonts. I am not advocating this at this point in time as I'm
not convinced yet this will be fast enough.
>Character widths for helvetica (relative to font scale):
Neat. Thanks.
-Ales
