Missing some kerning pairs in Microsoft Office

GilbertLeng · November 19, 2020, 5:38am

Hi,

There are some missing kerning pairs in Microsoft Office like for example Aa, Av, Aw, Ve, and the list goes on. Everything works well in Adobe apps.

Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks a lot.

mekkablue · November 19, 2020, 6:47am

Did you turn on kerning in Word? Can input post a screenshot of the Font > Advanced Panel?

GilbertLeng · November 19, 2020, 7:34am

Testing on Microsoft office 13. With this setup the font manage to work well in Microsoft office 19 for the kerning.

GilbertLeng · November 20, 2020, 2:06am

@mekkablue But with this setting it doesn’t work in Microsoft Office 13.

mekkablue · November 20, 2020, 9:00pm

You mean it is not working in old versions of Office? That may be because it used to not support GPOS properly.

GilbertLeng · November 23, 2020, 1:46am

Hi @mekkablue

May i know how can I solve this problem?

Thank you so much.

mekkablue · November 23, 2020, 4:20pm

In order to help you, I would need my question to be answered. Do I understand you right that it does work as expected in the current version of Word. It just does not work in an old version of Word. Is that correct?

GilbertLeng · November 24, 2020, 2:16am

Hi @mekkablue

Yes.

mekkablue · November 24, 2020, 3:38pm

Possible that the old version of Word requires an (old-style) kern table. Newer fonts use the GPOS table for kerning. There is a custom parameter to force-export a kern table. However, I recommend to ignore the old Word version.