Kerning issues after font creation

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January 1, 2025
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How can I fix adobe acrobat to maintain the kerning I completed in adobe illustrator? In illustrator, the kerning is applied however adobe acrobat and all microsoft office applications do not maintain the kerning with letters such as Jo, Ta etc

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

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Are you attempting to edit text in Acrobat in a PDF created in Illustrator?

If so, Illustrator and InDesign (and any higher-end authoring program) have much more sophisticated kerning/tracking routines than Acobat can do. Editing text in Acrobat is not meant for anything other than minor fixes. You should always go back to the authoring program for anything substantial.

The short answer, then, is you cannot automatically kern text the same way, although you could go in an apply individual kerning between certain letters.

Microsoft Word (and PowerPoint) is similarly less sophisticated but you CAN use kerning pairs but you have to turn it on in the Advanced dialog in Font properties for the affected text, but it still may not match what you've done in Illustrator, and it can only do it if kerning pairs are defined in the font used.

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rebeccca_4634Author

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I'm attempting to make fillable boxes/prepare a form from a converted office application to a pdf. When I use my created/downloaded fonts there are large spaces between particular uppercase letter to lowercase letter combinations for all the applications while it maintains what I created in Illustrator/fontself.

Thankyou!

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

You won't be able to do the same kind of kerning that is done in Illustrator. The spaces you speak of are just the natural spaces that would occur when letters (which are designed in a rectangle) are placed beside each other without kerning, as below:

in Illustrator, you can see the same by assigning a kerning value of "0" (zero) instead of either Auto/Metrics or Optical. This is akin to how type blocks were set in the pre-computer days. Conversely, using Metrics, it's using the kerning pairs designed in the fonts to back letters up to remove most of this space accordingly. Again, it also depends on the font. Some designes are better than others, especially with form input data.

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