No Kerning from FreeType

[chlumsky]

No Kerning from FreeType

[stephanemagnenat]

Maybe compile a simple FreeType program that reads in the files and prints the kerning values?

The program ttfdump might help with that. I just run across a similar problem. I guess the problem might be that the font only have GPOS table and not the kern table (it's the case with Roboto for example). It seems that Freetype does not support the GPOS table. A work around is to open the font in fontforge and re-export it with kern table. I hope it helps!

[Chlumsky]

Are you sure the font actually has kerning pairs? If the FT call returns zero but shouldn't, then maybe you need to submit the issue to FreeType developers.

[gurki]

Thanks for the quick reply! I've tried several fonts with kerning (e.g. Source Sans Pro) and verified the font converting it using other tools. Seems like a "doesn't work on my machine"-thing then I suppose. I'll reach out to the FreeType devs and will update this issue when there's a resolution. Cheers.

[jnhyatt]

FreeType doesn't support every time of kerning. Maybe compile a simple FreeType program that reads in the files and prints the kerning values?