I'm still new to VW and while I'm slowly beginning to enjoy some of its functions, I keep coming across frustrations which seem a big disappointment in the software.
I've mentioned this before but it seems more and more pressing every time I use VW for presentation documentation: lack of real kerning /tracking control.
As someone coming from a graphic design background, it makes me squirm with embarrassment to output documents which have such glaringly awful typography setouts.
I'd like to avoid having to take PDFs into another program merely to do labels on maps etc.
Attached is a sample of the problem.
The letters K,I,N are not spread out enough to be proportional with the rest of the letters. This is magnified with the tracking (INFO PALETTE) set to maximum in the closest approximation of mapping styles for road names etc.
I understand the inbuilt letter-based kerning proportions that VW is using, but unfortunately that is incorrect for anything other than body text.
Adding spaces in between the offending letters helps a little but is still wrong, and it pains me greatly.
Can VW PLEASE add in a little more control to to stop people with a few typography bones from weeping uncontrollably.
Or... let me know where I can find controls that I have not yet discovered?
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Hi,
I'm still new to VW and while I'm slowly beginning to enjoy some of its functions, I keep coming across frustrations which seem a big disappointment in the software.
I've mentioned this before but it seems more and more pressing every time I use VW for presentation documentation: lack of real kerning /tracking control.
As someone coming from a graphic design background, it makes me squirm with embarrassment to output documents which have such glaringly awful typography setouts.
I'd like to avoid having to take PDFs into another program merely to do labels on maps etc.
Attached is a sample of the problem.
The letters K,I,N are not spread out enough to be proportional with the rest of the letters. This is magnified with the tracking (INFO PALETTE) set to maximum in the closest approximation of mapping styles for road names etc.
I understand the inbuilt letter-based kerning proportions that VW is using, but unfortunately that is incorrect for anything other than body text.
Adding spaces in between the offending letters helps a little but is still wrong, and it pains me greatly.
Can VW PLEASE add in a little more control to to stop people with a few typography bones from weeping uncontrollably.
Or... let me know where I can find controls that I have not yet discovered?
Thanks!
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