Tracking - is there a way to isolate sections to be adjusted

[KariF]

 

Please see attached file.  (Just starting to learn A D so thanks in advance for you response.) 

For the word Adventure that is scripty, I'm finding that it looked smushed. It does because I had to 'overdo' because there were 2 points in the word where I had to increase the tracking to have them touch.  

I am doing this so that it becomes a combined word for easier laser cutting.  Hope my explanation is clear.  Ideally I had wanted to just select the two letters where I needed the 'additional' adjustment. Is that possible?

Thanks,

Kari

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[cgidesign]

The "scripty" font is not embedded in your file, but nevertheless you can select individual characters instead of the whole word to adjust the tracking only for those ones.

Another way to do things like that (if you don't need to change the text anymore), is to convert the text into curves. This way each character becomes an individual curves object. For that go to menu [Layer] -> [Convert to Curves]. You then get a new group in the layer stack.

[thomaso]

I am not sure what exactly you want to achieve, you don't mention the specific two glyphs ("points") and I don't have the fonts used in your file.

So just some notes: When using tracking you can either place the cursor between two characters or select one or more character. The first will affect the entire word – while the latter affects the selection only, respectively the spaces right of its characters.

Another option is using kerning (in the UI above tracking). Here placing the cursor between two characters affects the character right of the cursor – while selecting characters doesn't have an effect for kerning. Means every kerning adjustment affects the space between two characters only, if you want adjust more characters with an identical value then tracking would be faster.

If this doesn't help a screenshot would be useful.

[KariF]

Very sorry.....here is the original..

[thomaso]

Example: Lets assume in the scripty word the first letter 'e' looks like 'a' and thus it could need more space between e and n.

1. As you want to remove the letter spacing in the whole word, you can use tracking (just place the cursor between any two characters) – as you have already done with -80 ‰.

2. Then use kerning to increase space between e and n with the cursor placed between them.

The advantage of mixing both options tracking + kerning allows you to play with the adjustment for the entire word (tracking) without influencing a space adjustment between individual characters (kerning).

[KariF]

I think this is exactly what I needed to know.  Thank you soooooo much.  I couldn't quite get the hang of it.