Re: [Ming-dev] kerning with Ming

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[moved to ming-dev]

This discussion should be moved on ming-dev to gather others' opinions too.

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:28:43PM +0100, Nick Lewis wrote:
> Sorry that part is just a proposal for a private ming flag to control
> whether kerning information is included in the swf

A Ming-private flag might use reserved bits.
Maybe a cleaner implementation would just be composed by an _additional_
method of SWFFontCharacter

--strk;

> -----Original Message-----
> From: strk [mailto:st...@ke...] 
> Sent: 27 May 2010 08:10
> To: Nick Lewis
> Subject: Re: [Ming-dev] kerning with Ming
> 
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 06:03:19PM +0100, Nick Lewis wrote:
> > Perhaps something like attached patch 
> 
> Wow, sounds good!
> I didnt' know of the SWF_FONT_KERNINFO flag, nice one!
> Does that flag make it so that the existing testsuite
> succeed always ?
> 
> --strk;
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nick Lewis 
> > Sent: 25 May 2010 15:12
> > To: 'strk'
> > Subject: RE: [Ming-dev] kerning with Ming
> > 
> > Ok
> > 
> > If all the textfields were noedit then only the specific glyphs would
> be
> > included in the swf. Can the kerning table in the swf also be tailored
> > to include only relevant charcodes? Perhaps before writing out a
> > font->kernTable entry it would be worth checking 
> > if (SWFFontCharacter_findGlyphCode(inst,font->kernTable.x[i].code1) &&
> > SWFFontCharacter_findGlyphCode(inst,font->kernTable.x[i].code2))
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: strk [mailto:st...@ke...] 
> > Sent: 25 May 2010 13:48
> > To: Nick Lewis
> > Subject: Re: [Ming-dev] kerning with Ming
> > 
> > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:14:00AM +0100, Nick Lewis wrote:
> > > I agree that a font flag for kerning would be useful. This would be
> > set
> > > if any of the textfields that referenced the font had corresponding
> > > textfield kerning flags set. The ming user could set the textfield
> > > kerning flag using SWFTextField_setFlags()
> > > 
> > 
> > Note that textfield kernings flag can probably be set via
> > ActionScript too, so I wouldn't take the hard-coded one
> > on TextField as driving the font one.
> > Would rather have an SWFFontCharacter-specific function,.
> > 
> > --strk;
> > 
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