Re: Kerning Pairs
Re: Kerning Pairs
- Subject: Re: Kerning Pairs
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 10:31:36 -0500
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014, at 08:36 AM, Raglan T. Tiger wrote:
> My task is to make the Mac view and controller to capture the selected
> font. The rendering of the font is all good. So now I just need kerning
> data that I can put into a KERNINGPAIR structure and my task is complete.
That's a means, not an end. The purpose of your program isn't to extract
kerning information. The question now thrice posed to you: what does
your program *do* that involves kerning information?
>
> I have read the reference from Kyle that describes the 'kerx' extended
> kerning table which is supported on OS X 10.7 and iOS 7 onward. Our
> deployment is 10.5 and greater.
>
> I suspect that the 'kern' table will give what I need.
>
> How does one get a pointer to a 'kern' table for a specified font?
Not all fonts have a 'kern' table, so this is not the way forward.
It sounds like you're trying rrrealllly hard to avoid admitting to
yourself that your model code needs to be rewritten.
--Kyle Sluder
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