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From: hess@rospc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Hauke Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Font manager kerning?
Summary: Where is the kerning information for ATM Fonts hidden?
Keywords: kerning, ATM, font manager
Message-ID: <hess.671117227@rospc1>
Date: 8 Apr 91 13:27:07 GMT
Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
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Organization: University of Hamburg, FRG
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Hello,

I`m just learning programming the MAC Toolbox and noted a pretty bad kerning,
if I scale an ATM font (in my case TIMES24). Now Word4 does this bad kerning
too, but RagTime and WriteNow include print options like "use printer spacing"
or "optimal kerning for Laserprinter" which get rid of this kerning problems
even if you`re not printing on a PostScript Device but on an ordinary
Matrix Printer with ATM. 

So my question is: where do these programms know from, how to kern scaled
fonts correctly?

Hauke Hess / University Hamburg / Germany