Re: Auto-kerning

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From: Jeffrey H. Coffield
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:26

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jdaw1 wrote:
> A PostScript program being written will need to show some text, quite
> large, in Times Bold, some of it in all CAPITALS. The text should be
> kerned�especially sequences like �WAY�. But I have no font metrics
> files; no pre-computed kerning pairs. Is there any way to have the
> PostScript do the kerning automatically? Please, is there any public
> code or data that can be fed to kshow?

Here is one public source for the kern table. How you get that to kshow
would take a little time.

http://ctan.binkerton.com/macros/text1/compugraphics_8600/etb.fontinfo

Jeff Coffield

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