How to add spacing between characters in text using VIPS?

Question

I'm using the VIPS library for manipulating images and adding text to them. I want to know how to add spacing to characters in text?

The following image is an example of what I'm talking about.

Tracking and kerning

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 29 '19 at 17:53

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You can use pango markup. For example:

vips text x.png '<span letter_spacing="10000">Hello!</span>' --dpi 300

To make:

answered Dec 29 '19 at 17:53

jcupitt

That worked perfectly, but for the sake of clarification: does VIPS support all of the pango features listed in that link? – PiFace Dec 29 '19 at 21:00
Hello, yes it does, except for colour output. – jcupitt Dec 29 '19 at 21:25

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