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Article #1694Font Metrics or Optical??
From: sandy_jurca
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:55
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:55
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Win XP, IDCS2 -- Long Document (Books) publications, need to refresh my memory why we chose to use font Metrics as default, rather than Optical. Can one of you typography experts please explain the difference & what the majority of long doc. publishers would use as default. For over a year most of our documents have been using font metrics as default, with no complaints. Well, one job on press has been found to have bad(tight) kern in one italic typeface & the overall decision of using Metrics is being questioned. thanks sandy
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