Hi there,
I have a client using Quark Xpress blaming one of my fonts for spacing problems in the last paragraphs lines of a document. In my opinion this is probably just a H&J issue and not related to the fonts. However, as he claims to be an experienced Quark user I would like to know what you guys think.
Any idea about what might be causing it?
TIA
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It's likely neither your font nor QXP explicitly.
I've never seen the problem myself, and I use QXP versions 9 forward nearly every day. It may be an issue of forced justification + some heavy use of tracking and or the kerning tables. Or?
If you have the user copy a paragraph or two thus affected into a new document, send it to you, I can take a look. All settings should travel with the new document. I would simply need the Q file and the single font for the affected text, which I would delete following reporting to you.
Alternatively, you can have them contact me directly or Quark itself. I can send you my email address via a private message.
Mike
I'm not sure how this could happen, but it seems almost like Quark is interpreting the character width data as if the UPM were 2048 instead of 1000, but not the outlines. Or something like that.
I suggest the user try saving the file (under a new/temporary name, of course) AFTER changing the font to something else. Then re-open that file. If the problem returns for the other font (as I suspect it might!) the same way it did for your font, then that absolves your font of any responsibility/involvement.