Need font metrics to make justification work properly.

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#3 Need font metrics to make justification work properly.

Milestone: Enhancement

Status: open-later

Owner: nobody

Labels: PostScript (3)

Priority: 2

Updated: 2000-08-07

Created: 2000-08-07

Creator: Rick Kwan

Private: No

Release: java2d-pstext-0.1
Need a way to read font metrics for printer-resident fonts. This is needed to make text justification work properly.

Discussion

Rick Kwan - 2000-08-07

I'm going to respond to myself here.
Part of the reason metrics haven't been tackled yet is that this project is aimed at multi-lingual printing. In this domain, there is an interesting trade-off: Latin fonts have highly variable metrics, but relatively few glyphs. Asian fonts (Hanzi, Kanji, whatever) basically have the same metrics, but thousands of glyphs. The problem is to come up with a representation that captures Latin font variability and scales well for large Asian fonts. Ideally, it should handle bi-direction as well.

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Rick Kwan - 2000-08-07

priority: 5 --> 2

status: open --> open-later
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