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About kerning

Kerning is a specialized form of spacing between certain pairs of characters that look best when they overlap slightly, such as A and W (AW). Kerning dramatically improves the appearance of large text for headlines, but it often does not improve the appearance of text at small font sizes.

If the Kerning option is on in the Text tab of the Property Inspector, Director kerns all the characters in the cast member according to standard kerning tables (see Setting text or field cast member properties). The setting you enter in the Text window or Font dialog box (see Formatting characters) supplements the standard kerning.