Position of single chars of text/itext?

[timoostrich]

Is there a way to get the x/y positions of every single char in an itext object?

It would make many things easier, for example a real svg export (fonts to paths).

At the moment I am working on a solution which recreates the char positions based on __charsBounds etc. but it gets even more complicated when I comes to alignments, flipped text etc.