ETI

I'm new to Publisher and while I've been really impressed by it generally, I'm massively disappointed that there doesn't appear to be an optical kerning feature? I noticed several other (albeit older?) threads on here regarding optical kerning so I hope I'm right in saying that it currently isn't a feature on v1.9 and I've not been going mad looking for something that's hidden in plain sight?
Optical kerning is the one thing stopping me from swapping from Indesign to Publisher completely as it's a feature I use so often. Not everyone wants to manually kern every project (not every project needs it) and it's even more of a pain when you're not working in English.
I really hope they implement it soon, it doesn't really compete with Indesign without it.
(Also does anyone from Serif ever see the forums?)

I'm new to Publisher and while I've been really impressed by it generally, I'm massively disappointed that there doesn't appear to be an optical kerning feature? I noticed several other (albeit older?) threads on here regarding optical kerning so I hope I'm right in saying that it currently isn't a feature on v1.9 and I've not been going mad looking for something that's hidden in plain sight?
Optical kerning is the one thing stopping me from swapping from Indesign to Publisher completely as it's a feature I use so often. Not everyone wants to manually kern every project (not every project needs it) and it's even more of a pain when you're not working in English.
I really hope they implement it soon, it doesn't really compete with Indesign without it.
(Also does anyone from Serif ever see the forums?)

+1 from my site also to this thread here... Can we at least get some kind of tags like "feature request seen", "feature request accepted", "in development" and "included in version x" or any update?

YES - WE NEED OPTICAL KERNING! Affinity Publisher is not a useful program until it has OPTICAL KERNING. And Optical Kerning also in Affinity Designer, of course!

Yes, but note that they generally do not comment in the Feedback forums. They look at the feature requests here, and use them for planning purposes, but interaction with the users is primarily in the other forums (questions, bugs, beta), not in Feature Requests & Suggestions.

I'm new to Publisher and while I've been really impressed by it generally, I'm massively disappointed that there doesn't appear to be an optical kerning feature? I noticed several other (albeit older?) threads on here regarding optical kerning so I hope I'm right in saying that it currently isn't a feature on v1.9 and I've not been going mad looking for something that's hidden in plain sight?
Optical kerning is the one thing stopping me from swapping from Indesign to Publisher completely as it's a feature I use so often. Not everyone wants to manually kern every project (not every project needs it) and it's even more of a pain when you're not working in English.
I really hope they implement it soon, it doesn't really compete with Indesign without it.
(Also does anyone from Serif ever see the forums?)