Ron Parker wrote:

>Worse yet, it may not have been I who posted it.  I certainly don't
>remember writing such a macro.

Thanks Ron, it seems I was quite wrong,

>  From: "Eric Freeman" <eri### [at] ametronet>
>  Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 02:46:58 -0500
>  Message-ID: <37fafe75@news.povray.org>

and it's mutch older than I thought.

It does exactly what I thought, but not what I hoped. Is there a way to 
get the kerning(?) of a text with a macro? Or does that need a patch (is 
it the total_offset in truetype.c)?

I'd like to somehowe get an array with the minimal x-coordinate of each 
letter in a text-object. This for better placing text along an arc or 
curve. With fixed letter distances it look terrible, especialy, the in 
Dutch often used, "ij" combination. I'm trying to make a Pythonscript 
using the FreeType library, but it's still a bit above my powers :(


Ingo

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