JB,
I think you may be vastly underestimating the task of supporting
kerning and tracking by using dummy spaces inserted into the flow of
text. Among other things, this would render your text impossible to
parse and be quite slow. What's appealing about strange 1 pixel
characters inserted into your text in a non-standard font that makes
it better than the image solution? At least with the images, you can
use any character and any font for your spacer.
I agree that all of these features would be useful, but I disagree
that 1-pixel fonts would really accomplish much towards that goal.
Using an image has been discussed before. How would you like to use
an image
every time you wanted to add a space? It would be a lot nicer to
not use an image
instead of a text character.
Look at it this way. With the 1 character added Rev could advertise
it allows both
Kerning and Tracking. To those in the publishing industry that
means a lot. Now
they can advertise you can convert a character into an image every
time you need
to use tracking or kerning.
What do you think is going to help sell Rev better? Look at how
many asked for
text improvement. And since it is so simple it would be idiotic for
them not to add
it even if only a small percentage of people are interested in
serious desk top
publishing capabilities.
Kerning and Tracking are extremely important in quality desktop
publishing and
have been and still are important in almost every newspaper,
magazine etc. that
is printed. People care about it but many are not aware of it.
-=>JB<=-
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