On Sep 15, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I think you meant that OCS can force fonts to lay out with fairly good >> letter >> spacing -- or kerning. And of course you can hand kern in InDesign or Quark. >> It was relatively simple with Quark. Unfortunately, I've had only minimal >> experience with InDesign -- something I need to correct -- but I suspect >> kerning is fairly simple in that program as well. > > You can hand kern in Photoshop now. And adjust leading and tracking. > InDesign and Illustrator have more advenced tools still. In InDesign > you have options for hyphenation and for word spacing options with > justified text. All pretty easy to do. > > (I was just teaching hand kerning in Illustrator about 20 minutes ago > - I think I have a pretty good batch of students this semester!) >
I put the type on the Paul Miles photo in PhotoShop. I noticed there are some options beyond leading and font size. I'll have to fool around and see how they work. I miss Quark. I'm a stubborn old goat, and I don't like change. Paul > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

