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Marten Lehmann - 31 Jul 2006 16:11 GMT
Hello,

from Photoshop I'm used to be able to define the space between two
characters. So I can generate something like

T   E   X   T

without having to put the blanks in there on my own. This setting can
also be used to put the characters closer to each other, so the
characters might be overlapping.

Is there an option in the Font-classes of awt to achieve the same
result? On the one hand I haven't found something yet, but on the other
hand I'm not really sure what to look for.

Regards
Marten
Oliver Wong - 31 Jul 2006 17:37 GMT
> Hello,
>
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> On the one hand I haven't found something yet, but on the other hand I'm
> not really sure what to look for.

   (1) Learn the proper terminology by going to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_%28typography%29
   (2) Perform a google search for "tracking java font"
   (3) Read
http://download.java.net/jdk6/docs/api/java/awt/font/TextAttribute.html
   (4) Profit!!!

   - Oliver
Marten Lehmann - 31 Jul 2006 17:57 GMT
>    (1) Learn the proper terminology by going to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_%28typography%29
>    (2) Perform a google search for "tracking java font"
>    (3) Read
> http://download.java.net/jdk6/docs/api/java/awt/font/TextAttribute.html
>    (4) Profit!!!

Thanks. Seems that I have to wait for JDK1.6 to be released until I can
use this feature.
Oliver Wong - 31 Jul 2006 18:31 GMT
>>    (1) Learn the proper terminology by going to
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_%28typography%29
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> Thanks. Seems that I have to wait for JDK1.6 to be released until I can
> use this feature.

   Yes, unfortunately. However, you can download the betas right now if you
want to start development early.

   - Oliver


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