Saturday, February 14, 2009

Working With Kerning

Working With Kerning
Kerning usually refers only to the space between pairs of characters. Desktop publishing programs use linear calculations to determine character spacing. Sometimes this results in too much spacing at large point sizes and too little at small ones. Kerning adjustments are exactly proportional to the characters. PageMaker allows you to kern text manually, automatically, or both between two characters or, if necessary, over a range of text.
Here is an example of what kerned characters look like opposed to regular characters:
Automatic Kerning
1. Select the text you want to kern.
Note: Kerning affects the space after a character. So, if you want to change the kerning of a word, but not the width of space after the word, select all but the last character of the word.

2. From the Type menu, select Paragraph.

3. In the Paragraph Specifications dialog box, click Spacing.
The Spacing Attributes dialog box appears.
4. From the Spacing Attributes dialog box, select Pair kerning The selection will be
checked.

5. In the Auto Above text box, type the font size to which you want to apply auto-kerning.

6. To return to the Paragraph Specifications dialog box, click Ok.

7. To return to your document, click Ok.
Kerning with the Control Palette
1. Place your insertion point between the two characters.
Or
Select the text you want to kern.

Note: Kerning affects the space after a character. So, if you want to change the kerning of a word, but not the width of space after the word, select all but the last character of the word.

2. To add or delete space between the characters, press the appropriate nudge button.

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