[Fontconfig] kerning

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Mon Aug 11 12:04:08 PDT 2003


Around 0 o'clock on Aug 4, Tomasz Grobelny wrote:

> Is is possible to get name of the file containing font metrics (such as 
> kerning) to pass to FT_Attach_File? Or do I have to find it manually?

Alas, fontconfig doesn't have any way of locating the .afm file related to 
a .pfa/.pfb.  You can pray that the .afm file is in the same directory as 
the .pfa/.pfb, but that's not universally true (perhaps we should 
encourage this to become more true in the future though).

-keith





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