Problem with letter kerning in OSX 10.8 and iWork Suite

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Problem with letter kerning in OSX 10.8 and iWork Suite

Hi!

I recently upgraded my Macs to run OSX 10.8 (und just yesterday upgraded to 10.8.1). I noticed a problem with a certain font in all iWork applications (Keynote, Pages and Numbers) today. Somehow, the space between the letters seems somehow off. Even if i save the documents as PDFs, the problem persits.

Here is a Screenshot of two documents, one created with OSX 10.7 and one created with OSX 10.8.

The used font is called "Verlag" (http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLineID=100009), but it seems only certain faces of that font are affected. For now, I couldn't find any other font on my system with that problem.

I already upgraded all iWork applications to the newest version and deleted the font cache - still no luck.

Does anybody have a solution to this problem?

Thanks in advance,

Stephan

iWork Suite-OTHER, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)

Posted on Aug 28, 2012 12:42 PM

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PeterBreis0807

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Aug 28, 2012 7:24 PM in response to stephan.schimpf

Sounds like the kerning table is stuffed in those fonts and/or there is a bug in the latest software designed to cope with Retina Displays.

You can force the sapcing back out with:

Inspector > Text > Spacing > Character

Better may be to avoid the problem fonts for now.

Peter

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Aug 28, 2012 10:42 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Hi Peter, thanks for your help. We already thought about updating the template, but some of us are still using 10.7 (and are not affacted by this problem).

Somehow, even Textedit doesn't seem to be affected by this problem ...

Stephan

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