522863 - Provide a way to set kerning and letter spacing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 549861

(Core :: Graphics: Canvas2D, enhancement)

Description

[Tyler Thompson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
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The HTML5 canvas specification allows text output to be controlled to an extent, using the textBaseline, textAlign, and font properties, but it does not provide a way to set the kerning and letter spacing of text.

These are used commonly enough in text layout that I think adding new properties to support them is a good idea, even though it is not yet required by the standard.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[MrX1980]

I think a good example is this:
http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/newstuff/text6.svg

tested with:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101008 Firefox/4.0b8pre

Comment 2

[John Daggett (:jtd)]

New properties in CSS3 Fonts will provide support for this (font-kerning property) and support for this is enabled via the patches on bug 549861.  So I'm going to mark this as a duplicate of that bug.