Does FPDF2 support TTF fonts with kerning?

[AndTikhomirov]

Hi.

I've got a trouble.
I'm trying to use a custom font with kerning, but cannot make it render properly. No kernings applied to text.
Currently all kerning pairs made for cyrylic letter "Т" for testing.

Can someone help me with this problem?

Dumbledor3Thin.zip

[andersonhc]

I am working on a PR right now to implement text shaping and that will cover kerning - it should be ready to start testing soon.

Can you give me a sample text string you are testing with that font?

[AndTikhomirov]

Because all pairs were made only for letter "Т"

Text sample looks like this "Ты То Тф Та Тт Ти"

[AndTikhomirov]

Examples of render in fpdf2 & fontforge

[Lucas-C]

Related discussions & issues:

• Shaping Thai text support #679
• Integrate harfbuzz for text shaping in fpdf #696
• I cannot render Khmer Unicode Properly in PDF file. #700

[Lucas-C]

@andersonhc PR #820 has been merged today.

Could you test if that solved your issue @AndTikhomirov?

You can install fpdf2 directly from the master branch of this repo with this command:

pip install git+https://github.com/PyFPDF/fpdf2.git@master

The documentation is there: https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/TextShaping.html

[Lucas-C]

The text shaping feature has been released in 2.7.5,
so I'm going to close this issue.

Anyone is free to reopen it or open another one thare are still issues with font kerning.