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From: dkletter@adobe.COM (Dan Kletter)
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Subject: Re: Macintosh page composition programs
Keywords: Quark Xpress, Aldus Pagemaker
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Date: 7 Mar 89 18:41:21 GMT
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In article <15700@oberon.USC.EDU> crum@lipari.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) writes:
>But but but, what about kerning?

Ahh yes... This is a common question which brings up the common debate of 
typographers vs. engineers, who is the authority for this new technology?

> 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!

The kern tables discussion is a big one. To my knowlege, Adobe uses the
tables that are included with the data from the foundry or type house
they license from which are *suppossed* to be the correct ones. The
bigger question is is it one or ones? There are many people who claim to
have to correct kerning table for a set of fonts. In some cases it is
hard to know which is the right one because, I believe the kerning tables
are an advent of the printers, not the type designers.

As far as kerning information goes, the .AFM files on the PC and Mac
(respectively) fonts contain all the kerning information. Consult the manual
and the User License Agreement for more information.

Sorry, I don't know anything about the NeXT fonts except that it is currently
being worked on.--YOl