bad kerning with Garamond

bad kerning with Garamond

[Peter Münster]

Hi,

I've copied the files GARA.TTF, GARABD.TTF and GARAIT.TTF (Monotype
Garamond) to the fonts directory and then regenerated the database.

This is my test-file:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\setmainfont[garamond]
\starttext
\input tufte
\it
\input tufte
\bf
\input tufte
\stoptext
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The output is here: http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/test.pdf and it's very ugly.

How could I get better results please?

TIA for any help!
-- 
           Peter
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Re: bad kerning with Garamond

[Luis Montgomery]

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Try with

\setmainfont[gara]


2012/7/16 Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr>

> Hi,
>
> I've copied the files GARA.TTF, GARABD.TTF and GARAIT.TTF (Monotype
> Garamond) to the fonts directory and then regenerated the database.
>
> This is my test-file:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> \usemodule[simplefonts]
> \setmainfont[garamond]
> \starttext
> \input tufte
> \it
> \input tufte
> \bf
> \input tufte
> \stoptext
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> The output is here: http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/test.pdf and it's very ugly.
>
> How could I get better results please?
>
> TIA for any help!
> --
>            Peter
>
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Re: bad kerning with Garamond

[Peter Münster]

On Mon, Jul 16 2012, Luis Montgomery wrote:

> Try with
>
> \setmainfont[gara]

The result is worse: http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/gara.pdf

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Re: bad kerning with Garamond

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 16.07.2012 um 20:03 schrieb Peter Münster:

> On Mon, Jul 16 2012, Luis Montgomery wrote:
> 
>> Try with
>> 
>> \setmainfont[gara]
> 
> The result is worse: http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/gara.pdf


Try this example which doesn’t use simplefonts:

\starttext
\startfont[file:gara.ttf*default]\input knuth\par\stopfont
\startfont[file:garait.ttf*default]\input knuth\par\stopfont
\startfont[file:garabd.ttf*default]\input knuth\par\stopfont
\stoptext

Wolfgang
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Re: bad kerning with Garamond

[Peter Münster]

On Mon, Jul 16 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> Try this example which doesn’t use simplefonts:
>
> \starttext
> \startfont[file:gara.ttf*default]\input knuth\par\stopfont
> \startfont[file:garait.ttf*default]\input knuth\par\stopfont
> \startfont[file:garabd.ttf*default]\input knuth\par\stopfont
> \stoptext

Not really better:

http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/startfont-gara.pdf

There are now 3 pdf-files:

http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/startfont-gara.pdf      -> \startfont ... \stopfont
http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/simplefont-gara.pdf     -> \setmainfont[gara]
http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/simplefont-garamond.pdf -> \setmainfont[garamond]

The 3 ttf files come from an MS-Office installation.

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Re: bad kerning with Garamond (solved)

[Peter Münster]

On Mon, Jul 16 2012, Peter Münster wrote:

> The 3 ttf files come from an MS-Office installation.

I've replaced them with files from the internet
(http://www.findthatzip.com/), now it works!

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Re: bad kerning with Garamond

[Hans Hagen]

On 16-7-2012 20:59, Peter Münster wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>> Try this example which doesn’t use simplefonts:
>>
>> \starttext
>> \startfont[file:gara.ttf*default]\input knuth\par\stopfont
>> \startfont[file:garait.ttf*default]\input knuth\par\stopfont
>> \startfont[file:garabd.ttf*default]\input knuth\par\stopfont
>> \stoptext
>
> Not really better:
>
> http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/startfont-gara.pdf
>
> There are now 3 pdf-files:
>
> http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/startfont-gara.pdf      -> \startfont ... \stopfont
> http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/simplefont-gara.pdf     -> \setmainfont[gara]
> http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/simplefont-garamond.pdf -> \setmainfont[garamond]
>
> The 3 ttf files come from an MS-Office installation.

looks ok here (fonts from the windows/fonts path)




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Re: bad kerning with Garamond

[Hans Hagen]

On 16-7-2012 09:26, Peter Münster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've copied the files GARA.TTF, GARABD.TTF and GARAIT.TTF (Monotype
> Garamond) to the fonts directory and then regenerated the database.
>
> This is my test-file:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> \usemodule[simplefonts]
> \setmainfont[garamond]
> \starttext
> \input tufte
> \it
> \input tufte
> \bf
> \input tufte
> \stoptext
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> The output is here: http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/test.pdf and it's very ugly.
>
> How could I get better results please?


maybe it's a script or language dependent feature

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Re: bad kerning with Garamond

[Peter Münster]

On Mon, Jul 16 2012, Hans Hagen wrote:

> maybe it's a script or language dependent feature

Could you explain this please (what script, what language)?

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