My Quark officially bit the dust yesterday so I am finally jumping ship.
I have been using InDesign (ID) for <24h.
From my experience in the old days, I understand that when creating a typeface in a piece of software like Fontographer, you could pre-determine kerning pairs.
In ID, when I look at the kerning options, there are three choices:
1. Optical
2. Metrics
3. None
I understand that optical takes advantage of an algorythm in ID which attempts to counterbalance the negative space between glyphs based upon the typeface itself. Serif’s and all.
It is very important that I recreate materials using the type designers original kerning pairs, not ID’s interpretation of what it considers “good” kerning to be, and not all kerning pair set to zero.
Repeat, I need the text to be set using the original type designers kerning pairs.
Do I do this by using “metrics” or “none?”
Adobe technical support was unable to answer this question.
Thank you.
