Try using Helvetica Neue (Bold). Comes with the OS, too.

Best Oli


On 29.04.2010, at 05:49, Rick Mann wrote:

> 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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