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• To adjust kerning manually, place an insertion point between two characters, and set the desired value for the

Kerning option in the Character panel. (Note that if a range of text is selected, you can’t manually kern the text.

Instead, use tracking.)

Press Alt+Left/Right Arrow (Windows) or Option+Left/Right Arrow (Mac OS) to decrease or increase the kerning

between two characters.

• To turn off kerning for selected characters, set the Kerning option in the Character panel to 0 (zero).

Adjust tracking

Select the range of characters or the type object that you want to adjust.

2 In the Character panel, set the Tracking option.

Turn fractional character widths off or on

By default, the software uses fractional character widths between characters. This means that the spacing between

characters varies, and will sometimes use only fractions of whole pixels.

In most situations, fractional character widths provide the best spacing for type appearance and readability. However,

for type in small sizes (less than 20

points) displayed online, fractional character widths could cause type to run

together or have too much extra space, making it difficult to read.

Turn off fractional widths when you want to fix type spacing in whole-pixel increments and prevent small type from

running together. The fractional character width setting applies to all characters on a type layer—you cannot set the

option for selected characters.

❖ Do any of the following:

• To set type spacing for the entire document in whole-pixel increments, choose System Layout from the Character

panel menu.

• To re-enable fractional character widths, choose Fractional Widths from the Character panel menu.

Special characters

About character sets and alternate glyphs

Typefaces include many characters in addition to the ones you see on your keyboard. Depending on the font, these

characters can include ligatures, fractions, swashes, ornaments, ordinals, titling and stylistic alternates, superior and

inferior characters, old-style figures, and lining figures. A glyph is a specific form of a character. For example, in

certain fonts, the capital letter A is available in several forms, such as swash and small cap.

There are two ways to insert alternate glyphs:

• The Glyphs panel lets you view and insert glyphs from any typeface.

• The OpenType panel lets you set up rules for using glyphs. For example, you can specify that you want to use

ligatures, titling characters, and fractions in a given text block. Using the OpenType panel is easier than inserting

glyphs one at a time and ensures a more consistent result. However, the panel works only with OpenType fonts.

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