Hi Eric,
Unfortunately, tracking is one of those features of typography that
is not standardized between various computerized text layout
engines. (And tracking and kerning are often confused.) See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_%28typography%
29#Varying_systems_of_letter-spacing
Therefore, I can't give you an exact formula for translating tracking
values between QuarkXPress and FusionPro because they both calculate
tracking differently, and I don't have access to Quark's internal
tracking algorithm. Nor do I have access to Adobe's tracking
algorithm for InDesign. The only thing I could do to come up with an
approximate translation is to fiddle with the settings in both
applications, but you should be be able to do that yourself.
If you want all of the text in your FusionPro output to look exactly
the same in terms of typographical details such as tracking, word
spacing, and leading, then my recommendation is to export all the
text frames from your QuarkXPress or InDesign template as variable
and let FusionPro compose everything. It's unlikely that composing a
bit more text would slow down the composition substantially, but if
that's an issue, you could always compose the "static" parts to PDF
first using FusionPro, then use the resulting output PDF as the
background for your variable data composition.
Dan
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