From: Bernhard Rosensteiner <brosensteiner@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Kerning messed up for Minion Pro in ConTeXt 2010.06.09
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:57:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37827197-69E3-4D6E-8805-EB4EFB554C51@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C10A310.7070601@wxs.nl>
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Am 10.06.2010 um 10:32 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> On 9-6-2010 10:59, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 18:36, Michael Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>> it looks like the kerning has gone weird for Minion Pro in the latest
>>> ConTeXt (this is the only font I could find with the problem, all others
>>> looked fine). I've attached a PDF to show the effect.
>>
>> Just a blind guess. Some Adobe fonts use "kerning groups" (a set of
>> characters with equal kerning on left/right), while most fonts, in
>> particular all the Polish fonts/LM use just "normal kerning" (kerning
>> defined for each pair of characters). I suspect that only kerning of
>> "group of characters" might be broken.
>
> test code needed
how exactly should the test code look like? to reproduce it one needs the adobe fonts.
Here are links to my testing of the adobe opticals:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2082519/Typescript_Test.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2082519/Typescript_Test.log
Probably this does not help much but shows that the problem is not only with minion pro.
best regards
Bernhard
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-09 16:36 Michael Murphy
2010-06-09 20:59 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-06-10 8:32 ` Hans Hagen
2010-06-10 11:57 ` Bernhard Rosensteiner [this message]
2010-06-10 13:26 ` Hans Hagen
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