spacing different on screen than in print

[LouG]

I needed to print a musical flat character using a font that doesn't have one, so I copied one from a font that did to the font that I want to use. When I print the text out it looks just fine, however on screen there is a large gap between the new character and any next character. Is there a way to get the characters to show properly on screen?

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Reduce the right side-bearing of the glyph in the Glyph Edit window by dragging the vertical line, or by manually editing the side-bearings in the Glyph Properties dialogue (shortcut F3), or on the Bearings tab of the Transform Toolbar (shortcut F6).

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[LouG]

I tried as you suggested, with no improvement on the different spacing between screen and printer. I tried many different ways to solve the problem. Finally after hours of trying this and that, I noticed that the musical flat character I pasted into the font that I want to use was the % sign character, which is a wide character. I had observed that some applications, such as Word looked the same on screen and printed, however, other applications, such as Excel & Access, did not. It was as if the full width % sign had been typed. The solution turned out to be simple:

Format>Settings>Header-Font Header Flags Uncheck the "Instructions may alter advance width" box

Apperently some applications alter the spacing of some characters!!

Thank you very much for you input. It did seem that it should be the correct solution. Fonts are so much more complicated than I had ever expected.

Lou Gerovac