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From: nedludd@ut-emx.UUCP (charles s. geiger, esq.)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop,comp.text,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.next,comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Macintosh page composition programs
Keywords: Quark Xpress, Aldus Pagemaker
Message-ID: <11028@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 89 15:03:31 GMT
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Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <15700@oberon.USC.EDU>, crum@lipari.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) writes:
> But but but, what about kerning?  The "student" version of Xpress I
> used at the University of Utah didn't seem to do automatic kerning as
> Pagemaker seems to, albeit Xpress had a painful manual kerning option.
> 
> Does either utilize the PostScript kshow operator?  This brings up
> a higher-level philosophical point.  Shouldn't fonts be distributed
> with kern tables created by type designers?  I don't think kern tables
> of any sort come with the Adobe fonts.  Correct me if I am wrong!

I believe you are indeed wrong.  Adobe's AFM files have kerning tables
in them, so I'm sure the printer fonts do to.  Now it's time to
correct me if _I'm_ wrong!

Also, the latest Xpress does indeed have automatic kerning.  And I
kind of like their manual kerning too, especially when compared to
Pagemaker, which only lets you kern in increments of 1/24 the point
size of the charcters you're using--this sometimes just isn't small
enough an increment!

cheers, from
charles s. geiger, esq.