Hi Peter, On 11/9/06, Peter Nermander <m8130 at abc.se> wrote: > ............ I can set it in centimeters with two decimal places.
OK, in Scribus you can do it with upto 3 decimal places :) > ..... For two of them I expanded 4 poits, for another > two I condensed two points. OK, acknowledged :) :) My mind was locked into using only one way of using Word's kerning facility - may be the reason is that everytime you have to adjust kerning between two adjacent characters you have to select the two adjacent characters then right-click and pop-up a dialog, select a tab and only then adjust the kerning. There is no such hassle in Scribus - you can keep the property palette continuously open at the right (or where ever you want on the page) move your cursor any place between any two adjacent characters in any frame and kern-adjust the spacing from the property palette - you do NOT have to open up a Dialog box everytime you want to kern-adjust! Basically, word is good at the job it was designed to do - word processing - and it's user-interface is designed accordingly - that is, word-processing features are right there in front of you on the toolbar whereas you have to open modal dialogs for layout task such as kerning - the modal dialog boxes just don't go away until you close them. May be, that's why kerning the space between characters in Word the way you have described just never occured to me. With Scribus adjusting, the kerning is natural and simple. I hope you see the difference now ;) -- Best regards, Asif
