Is there no way to kern fonts in MS Powerpoint?
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From: Steve Rindsberg on 15 Jan 2010 14:38 In article <ki6vk5l1sat32bb8roqv6gjijcr866594k(a)4ax.com>, Joseph M. Newcomer wrote: > Note that "track kerning" is not the same as "pair kerning". True. But you can apply the amount of kerning you want to any selected text. Select a whole block of text and in effect, you have track kerning (usually called simpy "tracking" in the typesetting biz). Select just two characters to adjust the kerning for that pair (or rather that *instance* of that pair ... it'd be a whole lot more useful if we could define our own tables to apply to every instance of a given character pair). > (Some years ago, in a discussion, someone pointed out that he had done > > The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog > > in Word, one with pair kerning on, the other with pair kerning off, and observed that > "pair kerning does nothing, because both were the same length". Sadly, he had not > conducted a valid experiment; there is no pair of characters in that sentence that have > kerning information. I was able to create an example that demonstrated that in fact pair > kerning does work, but only for fonts that have the information and for sequences that > have kernable pairs) And to further confuse things, he'd have had to use the type a minimum type size (by default, over 12 point). > joe > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:15:37 -0500, Steve Rindsberg <abuse(a)localhost.com> wrote: > > >In article <CEF3A2C7-8A50-4473-83A5-371F8318475D(a)microsoft.com>, Tsy85kp > >wrote: > >> I have poked around off and on over the years... now it's really getting > >> annoying! > > > >I'm guessing you have PPT 2003 or older. > > > >PPT 2007 supports kerning. Select the text you want to kern, right click > >and pick Font. Click the Character Spacing tab then set the amount you > >want spacing condensed or expanded by. > > > > > > > >============================== > >PPT Frequently Asked Questions > >http://www.pptfaq.com/ > > > >PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint > >http://www.pptools.com/ > > > Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP] > email: newcomer(a)flounder.com > Web: http://www.flounder.com > MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ |