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The Kern Percent field is the setting for letter spacing for the selected text. It is represented
by a number where 100 is considered “normal” when auto kerning is turned off. With auto
kerning on, a larger number should be used depending on the selected font. With auto
kerning on, I have found the following Kern Percent values work well in most cases:
Single line fonts (Gothic1, Aura1)) – 120 to 125
Multiple line fonts (Helv3, Romain3) – 113 to 115
Outline fonts (Truetype and outline VEF fonts) – 105
For Truetype and outline VEF script fonts that are intended to connect the letters, you
should turn auto kerning off and set the Kern Percent value to 100 or slightly less than 100
to ensure the characters will overlap as intended. Turning auto kerning on will cause the
letters to space out as the software tries to maintain constant letter spacing. Feel free to
turn auto kerning off and on with these fonts and see the difference on screen.
Line Properties and Line Spacing
– This field controls the spacing between
lines when you enter multiple lines of text in a text paragraph object. It is important to
remember that this field only controls line spacing within the text object. It does not control
spacing between objects or if you ungroup the lines into individual objects. Using the Equal
Spacing or Weighted Spacing options under the Layout menu will also ungroup multiple line
paragraph objects into individual lines where this field will then not apply.
The Line Spacing field represents the spacing parameter as a percentage of the affected
line’s height above the baseline of the current line. If the Line Spacing parameter were set
to 100, the top of the line would touch the baseline of the line above. The important point for
Line Spacing is to remember that the parameter is used to set the spacing above the
selected line.
Since Line Spacing is expressed as a percentage of the selected line’s height, changes in
the font height will cause the line spacing to change above the line being changed. This
might require additional changes to line spacing after adjusting the character height in the
layout.
When setting Line Spacing, it is best to highlight the entire line being modified before
entering the new value. You can also set this field to an appropriate setting before entering
any text in the layout when you first enter text mode. The software will remember the last
setting used for Line Spacing (as well as most other values), and the current setting might
not be correct if you previously set a very large line spacing value to make room for a logo or
clipart image in your layout.