letter/character spacing

[jussihoo]

Why does FH MX make different spacing between letters, for example, if I type
the word "Portal", other letter spacings are 0%, but between P and o there?s
-2% spacing. I need to copy text from old PhotoShop documents, and there?s no
sense in spacings when I paste it to FH, they are anything between -10% to
+10%, looking terrible. How can I change all letter spacings to zero,
abc-palette?s %em already shows 0%, and setting the letter spacing min, opt,
max to zero doesn?t change this.

[Bill Schuhle]

What you're seeing is the kerning pairs built into fonts themselves which
automatically space different pairs of letters to look optically correct.
Some programs take and apply this information and some don't. I don't know
if there's a way to turn off auto pair kerning in FH or not. Maybe someone
else can help.

Bill Schuhle

[Judy Arndt]

Post by Bill Schuhle
What you're seeing is the kerning pairs built into fonts themselves which
automatically space different pairs of letters to look optically correct.
Some programs take and apply this information and some don't. I don't know
if there's a way to turn off auto pair kerning in FH or not. Maybe someone
else can help.

Edit > Special > Paste Special > Unformatted text

This will give you plain text of the font and size specified by the FH text
box you're pasting into. Does that work for you?

Judy Arndt

[Danny Whitehead]

Post by Judy Arndt
Edit > Special > Paste Special > Unformatted text
This will give you plain text of the font and size specified by the FH text
box you're pasting into. Does that work for you?

That (thankfully) *won't* override built-in kerning pairs.

Jussihoo, kerning pairs are put into fonts for a good reason, and
overriding them all with zero values is probably a mistake that will
result in ugly type. For instance, the space between the 'Po' glyphs
should almost always be tighter than 'Ro', because of the air underneath
the bowl of the P, which would be filled by the leg of the R. I don't
know about earlier versions, but I'm pretty sure that Photoshop will -
as should any program dealing with type - honour the built-in kerning
pairs of a font, when the kerning is set to 'Metric'. Had it not, I'd
never set another line of type with it.

Minus kerning between P and o shouldn't look terrible compared to zero
kerning, unless there is some other software bug happening here.