Comments on: Changing Kerning/Tracking Increments

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:11:13 +0000

Unfortunately, keyboard increments are a document pref, not application as they should be. (Um, hi Adobe, this is a user interface pref.) Open ID docs from others at your own risk.

By: pethr

pethr — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:24:46 +0000

This is one of the things I used to know and forgot and never bothered enough to find that shortcut again! This is also one of the reasons I came to love this site and now your podcast too. Thank you!

By: Alexandre Giesbrecht

Alexandre Giesbrecht — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:18:41 +0000

“If you don’t like the huge 20-unit change in kerning/tracking or the 2-point change in leading, you can change those values in the Units & Increments pane of the Preferences dialog box.”

Best tip of the month so far! I strated reading the post and immediately thought of the annoyance of the increments for some values. Even the hundredth of an em of tracking for the box sometimes is too much (sometimes, -1 is enough, but I have to keep trying the values from -10 up in order to find the best fit, and that I’d done mannually up till now). Even if all the preference changes is the keyboard increment, that may be even better than what I originally anticipated, since I can still go 10 thousandths at a time, but now I have (through the keyboard) the option to go 1 thousandth at a time as well.

By: Fritz

Fritz — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:04:08 +0000

I usually use the amount of 5 because it is equal it 1 in quark. That way if I hit opt-left 3 times it would be -15 in ID which is the same as -3 in Quark.

When I explain this to people moving from ID to Quark I just tell them to multiple what they want times 5 since ID is 5 times better than Quark.