This, however, is tedious, and if possible, I'd like to avoid it. Right now, I have tried to redo the kerning manually in a class-based fashion in FontForge (this font is developed in FontForge). This is an obvious use-case for class-based kerning. The main problem, besides the inefficiency with regards to the storage of the kerning of accented glyphs (with which I am not hugely concerned) is that there are many accented glyphs which are not kerned like their base glyphs.
#FONTFORGE KERNING WINDOWS#
Try TTX (from ) if you don't like the hexdump-method.Īnother method to check if the font is directly usable on Windows is to use the GetKerningPairs() API for this font and check the result.I'm working on a font which is already largely kerned, using table-based kerning. Please note that the "kern" tag is missing in this example as the traditional kern table is missing in the font file.
The table-name-tags are easily visible in the hexdump. > Could anyone kindly share procedures of test? > Please check if traditional kern table is are there All I'm saying is that this problem would affect every application that relies on the GetKerningPairs() call. If somebody else can provide such a list this would be most appreciated. I'm sorry I cannot provide the exact list of every app (be it FLOSS or traditional) and the exact versions that are affected.
If these other apps depend on the Windows GDI call GetKerningPairs() instead they have the same problem. These could be considered obsolete irrelevant by some but this is probably quite hard to convicnenot the consensus of the users on that platform. > Also, is this a problem for FLOSS windows apps that go through cairo and fontconfig (as they shouldĪFAIK most applications on Windows are not yet ported to to go through cairo or fontconfig for their graphics needs. Else there is that easily avoidable risk that new releases fail on windows with exactly the same symptoms. Testing them for common problems seen in related fonts (like DejaVu) should be considered to be a valid concern.
Here we are working on getting the liberation fonts into good shape. > please open DejaVu bugs at DejaVu upstream Generating fonts with traditional kerning in fontforge, step three Generating fonts with traditional kerning in fontforge, step two Generating fonts with traditional kerning in fontforge, step one 1.0706.zip on Linux with Abiword and OOo 3.1.0
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