Are you sure? it's only problematic when there are two 1s next to each other; a 
single 1 doesn't cause a shift. Maybe because it's a fraction of a pixel 
different in width, but like I said, usually numbers share the same width.

On Apr 28, 2010, at 18:56:07, Anatol Ulrich wrote:

> On 29.4.10 2:39 AM, Rick Mann wrote:
>> It seems that if I do a string-to-image -->  Billboard, and use Helvetica as 
>> the font, then the overall width of the string changes when two 1s render 
>> side-by-side. If it's "10" or "01" the change doesn't happen.
>> 
>> I feel fairly certain that Helvetica is a well-behaved font, in that the 
>> numeral glyphs are all the same width, but that's not what I'm seeing in QC.
>>   
> 
> That's not a bug. Helvetica is not a fixed-width font.
> Try cramming Helvetica's numbers into an equal-width grid in photoshop etc., 
> it will look crappy.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Anatol
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