Kerning etc.
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- Rozza0
Yo, i also looked into doing this a while ago, and your right, its a pain in the arse and so more complex to do, than it should be (so i gave up).
But before i gave up here's what i leaned:
1) You can get the kerning pairs out of FontLab/Fontographer as a text file. These give you the adjusments you need to make to pairs of characters to get them appearing properly next to each other.
From this you can then, if need be, adjust the overall tracking.
2) You need a different set of kerning pair values for each font you have.
3) You then need to loop through each character in the string your wanting to kern, create a new textfield for each character. Then match the kerning pairs with the two current characters and adjust the x position accordingly...
At this point i got frustrated and gave up.
But I ended up creating a new version of the typeface in Fontographer with the required kerning, which worked out fine for me. That any use to you?
Anyway hope my ramblings make sence!
R