Tip of the Day

Using the Preview Toolbar to Aid Kerning

I use a lot of extra text strings in the Preview.txt file as an aid for kerning. Jonne Haven added some more strings to my file for Uppercase-lowercase pairs. In Tools, Options, Advanced, Copy the Data files to the Data Folder, then Open User Data Folder to edit Preview.txt. Copy and paste this code to add the extra text strings.

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