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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / November 2007Kerning in Word 2004 (all updates have been applied)
After moving to Leopard the kerning in Word 2004 is horrid!! Good old fashioned True Type fonts (think: Times and Arial) work fine but the fonts I've tried from Adobe's Font Folio 11 have one or another kerning issue. I'm using Arno Pro and if I start a sentence with the letters "Th" then next letter looks like it has a space inserted. This does not happen in Pages 08 or in TextEdit. Arno Pro worked fine in Word 2004 under Tiger but I don't see how this is a Leopard issue especially since it only happens in Word. Thanks. In article <018d83bf-731a-4b0f-8559-d9fd08f9255d@l1g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, > After moving to Leopard the kerning in Word 2004 is horrid!! Good old > fashioned True Type fonts (think: Times and Arial) work fine but the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > in Word 2004 under Tiger but I don't see how this is a Leopard issue > especially since it only happens in Word. It is not kerning but ligatures. Look closely at Th fi and other common ligatures, and again in TextEdit say. You will see that 2 characters are combined into one. It got turned on by default in Leopard. It caught Microsoft flat-footed. They have no way to turn it on or off. I think it is because MS have their own layout engine for producing that distinctive ransom note look. You are knackered. Keep off fonts with ligature alternatives. Use a different word processor if you care about typography and care about using decent fonts. I recommend Pages. Cheap, fast, easy to learn and use. Exports to Word (including Word 2007's .docx format, which is more than Word 2004 can do without the flaky beta plug-in that expires in 5 weeks time) and imports Word styles if you must. I think I am about to be an ex-MVP.  SignatureTo de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 On 26/11/07 1:26 PM, in article 261120070226518778%nospam@yrl.co.uk, > In article > <018d83bf-731a-4b0f-8559-d9fd08f9255d@l1g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > I think I am about to be an ex-MVP. Dear dear, Elliott. Don't you know Microsoft's tagline for the MVP program is "Independent experts. Real world answers"? You're giving a real-world answer -- independently. I would not like to think any MVP would indulge in self-censorship as a consequence of the accolade they receive for outstanding effort in technical communities etc, and I don't see it in this newsgroup. The reality is that Microsoft *does* get flat-footed as a result of Word being ported across from Windows and being caught by Mac OS updates. Whose fault it is is another matter; but it happens. No point in anybody obfuscating it, n'est-ce pas? Yours pontifically, Clive ====== Hi Elliott: I agree with Clive. You are here to be "Independent". I realise that "real world" is asking too much of you. But "independent" will do :-) And you have to be a hell of a lot more provocative than that before Microsoft will even flinch. Microsoft has been to Mac World. Compared to the Mac Fanbois, you're a pussy-cat :-) Cheers On 26/11/07 11:56 AM, in article 261120070226518778%nospam@yrl.co.uk, > In article > <018d83bf-731a-4b0f-8559-d9fd08f9255d@l1g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > I think I am about to be an ex-MVP. SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/ Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@mcghie.name Doesn't make any difference to me if you suggest pages. I wouldn't be able to buy OX.5 until after the Christmas season. So Pages won't run on my machines. and I'm going to have to replace my G4-500 and I am waiting until they ship natively with X.5 and on the next gen Intel chip which probably won't be out until sept of next year. and I am going to have to figure out how to swap the drives in my G4-500 so that My OSX.4 drive is not a slave drive so that I can just hook up the two computers and transfer all my applications and files. > Hi Elliott: > [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >> >> I think I am about to be an ex-MVP. Signature------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phillip M. Jones, CET |LIFE MEMBER: VPEA ETA-I, NESDA, ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112 |pjones@kimbanet.com, ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! mailto:pjones@kimbanet.com <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/90th_Birthday/index.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Fulcher/default.html> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Harris/default.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Jones/default.htm> <http://www.vpea.org> Hello Phillip, www.apple.com/iwork/systemrequirements.html says you can run Pages with: A Macintosh computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5 or PowerPC G4 (500MHz or faster) processor 512MB of RAM (1G recommended) 32MB of video memory Mac OS X version 10.4.10 or later QuickTime 7.2 or later iLife ¹08 recommended 1GB of available disk space CD drive required for installation. Cheers, Clive ====== On 28/11/07 6:25 AM, in article OlsNOtSMIHA.4272@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl, > Doesn't make any difference to me if you suggest Pages. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > so that My OSX.4 drive is not a slave drive so that I can just hook up > the two computers and transfer all my applications and files. |
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