Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Hi there,
I' am searching since a while for a kerning-like feature within Imagemagick.

For my Application I need the feature tu customize the space (gap) between the singel letters of a word.

I read that freetye does support it... but cannot find a corresponding option in the IM-Documentation.

I would appriciate every hint concerning this topic.

THX

There is no option at this time to control text kernaling within freetype. Remember freetype is not the only font drawer within IM, though it is a major one. Also IM is not ment to be a text processor, but an image processor. if you want such a fine control of text you may need to look at TeX and MetaFont packages which is designed for exactly that type of text handling.

ok thanks for that information!
got to check these two suggestions...

can I control them via shell like IM?

THX

They are script converted for document prepration.
TeX has become part of LaTeX whcih is a specific document formating system built on top of TeX. Basically you can go as deep as you like, but it is a very lart system that you can not use just from the command line. It is devoted to text handling.