Script of the Month: Adjust Kerning
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This article appeared in Issue 150 of InDesign Magazine.It’s safe to say that few InDesign users who made the switch from QuarkXPress ever regretted it. But there are some important features that QuarkXPress has offered for decades that InDesign still lacks. Take kerning, for example. Sure, you can manually kern text in InDesign to your heart’s delight. You can even apply some limited kerning to text via character styles. But a much more powerful solution is to define kerning pairs to automatically adjust the spacing between specific characters in specific fonts. Sadly (and rather inexplicably), InDesign has never offered the ability to edit kerning pairs. Fortunately, there’s a powerful scripted solution.
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