Letter spacing problem with OpenType font

[mpjx]

Hi,

I cannot increase the space between letters in a sentence properly. I'm using
the "Cronos Pro Light Display" OpenType font by Adobe, this is one of their
"Opticals" fonts. When I increase letter spacing, the extra space is only added
between 2 letters and not the entire word.

An example: using the word "CHILD", if I increase letter spacing by 5% em the
letters "L" and "D" will move wide apart but "C", "H" and "I" will stay in the
same positions.

Is this simply a display problem in Freehand or will the letters print like
that? Is it a problem with Freehand and OpenType fonts (postscript flavour)?
Maybe a problem with the font but I doubt that because it does not crash any
software.

I'm running Frehand on Mac OS X 10.3.4

[Rich Hudgins]

You probably have the text cursor sitting between the L and D.
Highlight the entire word then apply the letter spacing.

Rich

mpjx wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I cannot increase the space between letters in a sentence properly. I'm using
> the "Cronos Pro Light Display" OpenType font by Adobe, this is one of their
> "Opticals" fonts. When I increase letter spacing, the extra space is only added
> between 2 letters and not the entire word.
>
> An example: using the word "CHILD", if I increase letter spacing by 5% em the
> letters "L" and "D" will move wide apart but "C", "H" and "I" will stay in the
> same positions.
>
> Is this simply a display problem in Freehand or will the letters print like
> that? Is it a problem with Freehand and OpenType fonts (postscript flavour)?
> Maybe a problem with the font but I doubt that because it does not crash any
> software.
>
> I'm running Frehand on Mac OS X 10.3.4
>

[mpjx]

Hi Rich,

Thanks for your help but no, I have the whole sentence selected. I've tried
the same operation maybe 30 times over the last day or two and always the same
result. Although I only get this with the one font, I don't think the font is
corrupted. I don't get the usual software crash problems etc that are normally
associated with corrupt fonts on a Mac.

I think it may be Freehand but I'd just like confirmation.