[poppler] Kerning pair information help

[Leonard Rosenthol]

People USED TO do that but it caused too many problems because there was
inconsistency between the Font programs and the Widths array and different
renderers did it differently.  Now the Widths array is pretty much ignored
in favor of the data in the program...

Leonard

On 8/11/11 5:08 PM, "James Cloos" <cloos at jhcloos.com> wrote:

>The only kerning which shows up in a PDF stream is the positioning
>specified by the T operators, including the numeric values in any
>array passed to TJ as well as the args to Td, Tw, Tc and ".
>
>(Note that PDF creators could change the /Widths array of an embedded
>font's font dict instead of using complex text splits and Td or TJ.
>I doubt that anyone actually does, though.)
>
>-JimC
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