Re: [Geotools-devel] Adding a kerning vendor option and enable it by default

2017-03-26 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
+1 to enable by default. For good examples, have a look at Vesy St and West St and Park Pl West on the left. W/e and V/e pairs are some of those most in need of kerning, and the improvement looks great to me. Kind regards, Ben. On 27/03/17 03:49, Andrea Aime wrote: > Hi, > a question on stackov

Re: [Geotools-devel] Adding a kerning vendor option and enable it by default

2017-03-26 Thread Justin Deoliveira
I think anything that makes rendering look better out of the box is a big win. I would say as long as the performance hit isn't catastrophic this would be worth it. $0.02 On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 8:49 AM Andrea Aime wrote: > Hi, > a question on stackoverflow [1] prompted me to look into font kerni

[Geotools-devel] Adding a kerning vendor option and enable it by default

2017-03-26 Thread Andrea Aime
Hi, a question on stackoverflow [1] prompted me to look into font kerning in java. After a few attempts I managed to enable it and imho indeed the result looks prettier... but one has to look carefully :-) I've created a before and after example, with a "difference" image highlighting in red what