Set letter spacing, kerning, and character position
Letter spacing inserts a uniform amount of space between characters. Use letter spacing to adjust the spacing of selected characters or entire blocks of text.
Kerning controls the spacing between pairs of characters. Many fonts have built-in kerning information. For example, A and V are often closer together than A and D. Flash provides horizontal tracking and kerning (for horizontal text) and vertical tracking and kerning (for vertical text).
For vertical text, you can disable kerning by default in Flash Preferences. If you do this and leave the kerning option selected in the Property inspector, kerning is applied to horizontal text only.
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Using the Text tool
, select one or more sentences,
phrases, or text fields on the Stage.
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In the Property inspector (Window >
Properties > Properties), set the following options:
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To specify letter spacing (tracking and kerning), click the triangle next to the Letter Spacing value
and
drag the slider to select a value, or enter a value in the text
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To use a font’s built-in kerning information, select Auto-Kern.
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To specify character position, click the triangle next to the Character Position option
and
select a position from the menu: Normal places text on the baseline,
Superscript places text above the baseline (horizontal text) or
to the right of the baseline (vertical text), and Subscript places
text below the baseline (horizontal text) or to the left of the
baseline (vertical text).
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