Hello everybody!
I’m new to the font creating and it’s the first time that I’m trying to make a font on my own. Up to now I had no problem at all, cause it’s quite easy using the Font Creator Program.
But now that my font is nearly finished and I’m testing it in various programs, I realize that the kerning won’t work in most of them. It doesn’t work e.g. in MS Word, Paint Shop Pro 7 or Micrografx Designer 9. Whereas it works in Adobe Photo Shop 7.
Am I doing something wrong, or are these programs just not supporting kerning?
In this board I read that you can turn on/off kerning in MS Word. But actually I don’t have that “kerning for fonts” field, that I could (un)check. (I’m using the German Version of Office XP.)
Thanks for your
Eva
Within Word 97, 2000 2002 you have to select text that you want to apply kerning to and then select “Format → Font” from the menu. Now press the “Character Spacing” tab and set the checkbox before “kerning for fonts:”.
Let us know in case Word XP uses another setting.
OK, in German it’s called “Unterschneidung”. And I didn’t know what that would mean. I was looking for something called “Kerning”. 
Acutally I did check that field before, but I didn’t see any change. Obviously you have to mark the text before, right? Or set it as default.
But it seems to work now.
Well, now I know that I didn’t do anything wrong creating that font; it’s just the programs that seem to have trouble displaying them correctly. But I guess, I’ll just have to live with that, right? 
Anyway, thanks for your help, Erwin. 
Groetjes,
Eva