I don't know if I'm posting this in the right place - because this my issue pertains to both Illustrator and After Effects, possibly other CC apps, but I haven't checked.
At some point in the past month, the way Illustrator and After Effects renders the font "Lato" changed. In the image below, you can see what I mean, the spacing between characters is out of wack:
(The green text is how the text is resolving now, and the red text is how it used to look)
I tried adjusting the tracking, and for some lines I can get it close, but not exactly:
I've tried Optical and Metric kerning, and while I get different results for both, neither are correct.
My client supplied the AI file, and they want an exact representation of their design. Part of my workflow is to copy the Illustrator text and paste it in After Effects, so that I'm able to animate the text. As a work-around, the client has provided me with a new AI file in which they've converted all the text to outlines, but that means I can't animate the text.
At first I thought this might be an English / French issue, as some characters are used in French that are never used in English. This problem didn't exist in the English version of this video, and but did when I started the French version. Now, weeks later, I'm making revisions to the English and I see this spacing issue is present here too. So, it has nothing to do with English/French.
What's interesting to me, the client-created PDF of the AI file is accurate. But, copy/pasting from Acrobat does not retain formating the way it does from Illustrator.
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