Re: Pango kerning

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Martin Vollrathson wrote:

> Hey!
> I'm having a problem that I suspect may have something to do with Pango.
> Observe this screenshot: http://mavos.net/kerning.png
>
> The image in the gray box is from fontforge's kerning pair editor and
> the rest of the screenshot is from GIMP. Why doesn't the text in GIMP
> use the kerning from the font? The same happens in Inkscape which also
> uses Pango for text rendering. I thought Pango was supposed to take
> kerning info from the font file. All my Hawaiis, Avenues and Teas look
> ugly because of this.
>
> /Martin

Just grab Pango 1.12.1, and report bugs in bugzilla next time :).


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