CompuServe Messages

Richard: You got it! However, I think even that 800 kerning pairs is still not as many as some fonts need. The problem with kerning is that it's pretty much a subjective thing. You might think that an "V" and "a" in a font look fine unkerned but I would find it intolerable. To this end, Mirror Image will be including (hopefully!) a kerning table editor in our next package which will allow you to adjust kerning on-screen (using character outlines of course) and then save that information to any of the file formats that currently contain kerning (PPage .metric, PDraw fonts, AFMs, PFMs, etc.). Since this information is independant of the actual printer fonts and is used only by DTP programs creating documents, it shouldn't create yet another situation like the "my Adobe Garamod printer font is different than the one my output bureau uses and my curly quotes aren't showing up!" one that's popping up due to programs like MetaPro converting Mac Type 1's into IBM Type 1's and scrambling the character names and order and so on (Yeesh!). Anyway… Gary – Mirror Image Prod. (416) 495-7469, via WHAP!