Re: Macintosh page composition programs

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From: Frank Kolnick
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1989 14:23

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In article <15700@oberon.USC.EDU> crum@lipari.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) writes:
>But but but, what about kerning?  The "student" version of Xpress I
>used at the University of Utah didn't seem to do automatic kerning as
>Pagemaker seems to, albeit Xpress had a painful manual kerning option.

XPress (my version; I know nothing about "student" versions) allows
automatic kerning, manual kerning and tracking (adding an equal amount of
space between all characters). Keep in mind that automatic kerning will
only take you so far. Most text (esp. display text) (i.e., large text)
has to be kerned manually (textbooks like to refer to this as 'optically'
versus 'mechanically').

-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank
-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop,comp.text,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.next,comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Macintosh page composition programs
Keywords: Quark Xpress, Aldus Pagemaker
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Date: 8 Mar 89 14:23:48 GMT
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