Text Spacing (Kerning/Tracking) Settings Lost

[Soquili]

Here are screen captures from one of my Vista machines.


Intel Core 2 Duo processor 2GB RAM
Intel 82945G Express Chipset Family video.

[Soquili]

Screen captures on another Vista machine.

AMD Athlon processor 1GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9550 / X1050 Series video.

Problem now appears to be related to the video card and/or driver at this point.

[steve.ledger]

My sons Vista Business machine uses an ATI HD 3850 and shows all versions of your file the same way both my nVdia display driven PC's do, not the same as Bills at all.

Very curious.
Bill - are you using any third party font managers on your Intel machine?

[Soquili]

I have Typograf installed but I don't think that would make a difference. It allows me to setup groups of fonts that I can swap in and out of the system fonts directory.

The Intel machine also has Intel ViiV technology for HD video and sound.

[Soquili]

I also checked the tracking of the two files on a Win2K machine with an ATI RAGE P/M Mobility video card.

The tracking is off in both files.

So far the Trident and Intel video cards I have available show the tracking near to the original files.

nVidia and ATI video cards I have available show the tracking off from the original.

My guess at this point is Video card and/or drivers.

I have the latest drivers for the cards in my machines. This may indicate that nVidia and ATI cards have issues with some script type fonts.

[mvpdigital]

This is getting more and more interesting and frustrating at the same time.

Just to clarify. Are you using the TTF or PS style of Scriptina? For the record, I am and have always used the TTF.

[Soquili]

I have been using the TTF font since you verified that is what you were also using.

[mvpdigital]

I don't know a lot about this stuff. But how/why would a video card determine how a font's attributes are displayed in a program?

[Soquili]

The video card renders the font to the screen. If the card cannot process and render character overlap the letters will have additional spacing (tracking).

[David O'Neil]

It might have something to do with the font having a bunch of what Font Creator calls 'errors.' Perhaps Windows 98 is more forgiving? Oddly enough, typing in 'Digital' in the preview window in Font Creator resulted in a properly kerned example, but typing it into Word resulted in unkerned output. This is on Windows 2000.