-kerning and font with kerning values

[chrisF]

If I want to enhance or reduce letter spacing with the -kerning option then the font's kerning parameters are ignored.

The reasion is related to
annotate.c: RenderFreetype()

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{
          if (fabs(draw_info->kerning) >= MagickEpsilon)
            origin.x+=(FT_Pos) (64.0*direction*draw_info->kerning);
          else
            if (FT_HAS_KERNING(face))
              {
                FT_Vector kerning;
  
                ft_status=FT_Get_Kerning(face,last_glyph.id,glyph.id,  ft_kerning_default,&kerning);
                if (ft_status == 0)
                  origin.x+=(FT_Pos) (direction*kerning.x);
              }
          }

why not add draw_info->kerning all the time?

[magick]

We can reproduce the problem you posted and have a patch in ImageMagick 6.8.9-6 Beta available by sometime tomorrow. Thanks.