Is there no way to kern fonts in MS Powerpoint?
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From: tsy85kp on 14 Jan 2010 15:39 I have poked around off and on over the years... now it's really getting annoying! kp
From: Mark on 14 Jan 2010 16:03 On Jan 14, 3:39 pm, tsy85kp <tsy8...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I have poked around off and on over the years... now it's really getting > annoying! > kp You can in 2007
From: Exhaust on 14 Jan 2010 16:06 You can in Office 2007. When you open the font dialog box there is an option now. "tsy85kp" wrote: > I have poked around off and on over the years... now it's really getting > annoying! > kp
From: Steve Rindsberg on 14 Jan 2010 16:15 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/
From: Joseph M. Newcomer on 14 Jan 2010 17:33
Note that "track kerning" is not the same as "pair kerning". All TrueType/OpenType fonts allow for pair-kerning tables. Track kerning adds/subtracts a *constant* amount of space between each pair of characters, regardless of their appearance. Pair kerning will adjust the spacing between two characters based on their relative appearance. In addition to pair kerning and track kerning, there is something I call "pseudo kerning", which is specifically the ABC font widths, which provide absolute offsets which try to give the illusion of tightening up gratuitous whitespace, but they don't solve all problems; there are a number of wonderful "weird cases" where the ABC metrics do exactly the wrong thing. (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) 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 |