Non Proportional fonts calculation

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 02:16P Mon Mar 12 2012, Bob Rasmussen wrote:

> The TFM file does indeed have kerning information, and I presume that 
> means the printers will kern the appropriate letter pairs. This makes it 
> even harder to predict where the end of a text segment will be.
> 

I am quite certain that the kerning data in the TFM is there for a driver
to use as it sees fit, but NO WAY does the printer itself apply the kern
pairs when unformatted text is sent to the printer. 


Jim 
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