Kerning individual numbers on various pages. help.

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July 26, 2019
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Need some help folks!

I have my page numbers set up on my master A-master spread. However, once I get to some of the triple digit pages, I need to do some individual adjusting (not to all of them) as the font I'm using wasn't designed well when it comes to number kerning pairs. I could changed the font but it's part of the branding and I have to keep it.

I'm not sure what way to go about this. . . I considered releasing the page numbers that need individual attention using the shift + command feature, however that doesn't allow me to kern between individual numbers, it only allows me to track (which doesn't do the trick).

What is the proper way to handle this issue? Thanks!

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a.yalda

Inspiring

Hi Richard,

You can try changing the style to use Optical Kerning instead of Metrics Kerning (if not already done).

Best, Adrian

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richardt30340675Author

Participant

I did change it to optical kerning, still looks bad, again the typographer didn't do there kerning pairs with the numbers.

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a.yalda

Inspiring

Funny. Optical kerning uses InDesign's engine to determine the best settings for the font optically.

You could create a character style with the kerning settings you want and then add a GREP style into the paragraph style that applies that character style to the offending character pair(s).

Truthfully, the best would be to open the font in a font editing program and correct the kerning table for that pair, but I don't know if that is an option for you.

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