Request: Make font kerning information available to extensions
Currently, text manipulation in extensions is somewhat limited due to the fact that the extensions have no knowledge about how it will be ultimately rendered. Character widths, kerning, etc. are unavailable—anything that needs to use these properties has to perform a binary call. (I believe this ultimately comes from the Pango library?)
It would be nice if the information about all of the fonts present in the document were somehow passed to Inkex so that these could be accessed without a binary call.