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Feb 7, 2024 8:51 AM UTC
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Kerning Issue Animate

Hello everbody. I saw that other people have this problem too but so far there wasnt a solution.

 

There are fonts which work perfectly fine with all the other adobe apps but not in Animate and its driving me crazy. For some reason Animate cant get the kerning right:

 

In Indesign:

In Animate:

I am using a Mac with Sonoma 14.1.2 and Adobe Animate version 24.0.

 

Why, is that and what can I do about it? Playing around with the kerning settings doesnt change anything.

 

 

 

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    DBA Timothy
    Participant
    Jul 30, 2024 6:23 PM UTC

    This is happening because the type is set to static text vs dynamic text. I believe the static text puts every character in a box that's the same width and ignores proper letter spacing. You can change this by clicking on your text box with the selection tool and changing it in the properties panel under object. There's a dropdown box.

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    Community Expert
    Feb 16, 2024 3:27 AM UTC

    You can recommend things you would like to see here. https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

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    Participating Frequently
    Feb 16, 2024 7:52 AM UTC

    I just tried. So. This is interesting: in the dropdown menue for choosing the operating system I actually cant choose Mac Os 14.x, which is Sonoma. 

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    Feb 26, 2024 11:35 AM UTC

    the spacing between letters or characters in a piece of text to be printed.

    Currently this is a issue with j, p, g and q. This is basically because the strokes are down, and AdobeAnimate only accepts everything except for these letters. Idk why but this might be a theory.

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    Participating Frequently
    Feb 13, 2024 7:39 AM UTC

    Nobody any idea?

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    n. tilcheff
    Legend
    Feb 13, 2024 8:01 AM UTC

    I can only say that there have been multiple reports about font issues with Animate on Sonoma.

     

    As far as I understand Sonoma is not an officially supported OS for Animate, but I may be wrong.

     

    Here is a quick search, which should show you a few threads, but I have never seen a meaningful answer:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?advanced=false&allow_punctuation=false&filter=location&location=category:ct-animate&q=sonoma

     

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    Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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    Feb 15, 2024 9:31 AM UTC

    Yes, I saw that too and how you said, not really any usefull answers. So there is nothing I can do, just wait that Adobe maybe fix that one day?

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