Intervention / Intervention/image
Add support for text kerning
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Description
Letter spacing or text kerning should at least be possible with Imagick:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/imagickdraw.settextkerning.php
However, this is not possible with the GD library and would have to be implemented manually. Unfortunately, I currently doubt that I can achieve visually appealing and typographically correct results with GD driver myself.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the linked ImagickDraw::setTextKerning documentation and comparing how the Imagick and GD drivers handle text drawing. Define the supported kerning behavior for both drivers and verify that the resulting text rendering is visually and typographically acceptable.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- computer-graphics
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100