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At 05:39 PM 4/8/2004, Manuel Fernandes wrote:
Hum, I guess if I was Adobe I could do the kerning dependent on the reader and not on the format.
But it wasn't/isn't how PDF (or Postscript) works...
Nowadays without the kerning issue I can get different visualizations of the same doc in the same machine by using different PDF readers.
Huh? Two PDF viewers will display the same PDF correctly ASSUMING that you have embedded the font data correctly and so that information is used instead of platform font data.
(let us not go down the color management route discussion...)
It seems to me more reasonable the reader doing the kerning automatically instead of me by adjusting the coordinate of every single char of a text.
You don't have to adjust every character, since most characters don't have matching kerning pairs. You only have to adjust those that have pairs and that you wish to kern.
If I have to adjust every single char in the text in order to have kerned text, I will end up with a significantly bigger file size, not to talk about the hassle it is.
Will the file be bigger, yes. Significantly, no. Not if you use the optimal text rendering operators...
Leonard
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