Filo63 Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Optical Alignment ... simply fantastic!!!!!!!! A_B_C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Yes, it is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdelaneau Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 When I saw this option I was hoping for automatic text kerning but instead it seems to be Indesign optically margin alignement with some nice new options. Can anyone tell me if the optical kerning is hidden somewhere ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filo63 Posted September 3, 2018 Author Share Posted September 3, 2018 I have not yet got to test it, but this menu inspires me a lot ... I think it has a lot of potential and control over all those fonts that are not really congenial to a good layout and justification. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted September 3, 2018 Staff Share Posted September 3, 2018 Then you may be interested in this very informed post by one of the developers writing this feature Filo63 and Martigny 2 Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoot Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 On 9/2/2018 at 4:09 PM, fdelaneau said: When I saw this option I was hoping for automatic text kerning but instead it seems to be Indesign optically margin alignement with some nice new options. Can anyone tell me if the optical kerning is hidden somewhere ? It seems that the "Auto" kerning option is simply "Use font metrics" and there's no fancy optical kerning engine at the moment which is disappointing. They say: "We provide kerning based on tables in the font file. As these are pretty well supported by fonts, doing anything more isn't a priority at the moment." ( https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/65653-tooltip-fix-and-optical-margin-align/&tab=comments#comment-342380 ) Which would be great if most of the crappy Windows base fonts weren't missing kerning tables. Not that I'm planning to use any of those but it was disappointing to see things like "A VID" in most of the random fonts I picked on a Windows machine not set up for DTP. It just means more people are going to produce more ugly typography as usual. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 And what font that Microsoft includes doesn't have the kern feature? I'm not saying that they are the epitome of great fonts for layout. Many/most are not. But they are generally serviceable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoot Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Things like Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Californian FB, Century Gothic, Century Schoolbook, etc., etc. I mean, how am I expected to survive if I can't auto-kern all my Comic Sans MS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 None of those fonts are default Windows fonts. They are 1990s fonts, at least here. As this computer never has had an OS older than Win8, they didn't come from Microsoft installs. But at least Comic Sans has 15,000+ kerning pairs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdelaneau Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 It isn't well known but Microsoft has done a great lot of work regarding fonts and they did release a few high quality fonts lately Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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