Accented character placement in built-in fonts

[John Whitington]

Hi.

I've just added support in our code for stamping text with accented
characters.

The text encodings of the 14 built in PDF fonts include separate
accents, so one backspaces-and-overwrites the accent.

Are there standard metrics for their placement? I've adjusted for
lower case / capital and for each accent, and seem to have it looking
ok, but I'd like to know if there's a proper way.

Thanks,

John Whitington
Coherent Graphics Ltd
http://www.coherentpdf.com/

[ken]

In article <4ae6f7e4-a915-4f5b-a0e2-3d28ac7fed66
@j32g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, jo...@coherentgraphics.co.uk says...

> Hi.
>
> I've just added support in our code for stamping text with accented
> characters.
>
> The text encodings of the 14 built in PDF fonts include separate
> accents, so one backspaces-and-overwrites the accent.
>
> Are there standard metrics for their placement? I've adjusted for
> lower case / capital and for each accent, and seem to have it looking
> ok, but I'd like to know if there's a proper way.

Most fonts will contain glyphs for accented characters, though these are
not always present in the default Encoding. Glyphs with names such as
agrave, aacute, Agrave and Aacute (capitals and lower case accented
characters respectively) are usually present in the font, and you would
be better to use these which are typographically correct, rather than
try to manipulate the accents and characters separately.

Ken