An ability to have an exact width without tracking
The width should be based on the actual vectors and not the letters with Tracking (Kerning). If I add 100 tracking to the text, it is wider then the actual vectors and that creates issues with making sure the letters will fit on a wall that they would be attached to.
Chris
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Chris, yes, even with the 'Align to Glyph Bounds' option (located in Align panel’s flyout menu) it still is measured by em-box, which includes side-bearings — they make a space between glyphs.
What I have though is the script that can partially ease your pain:
https://twitter.com/tchegr/status/973947185292193792?s=20Please vote there in the correlating request if you want it to be fixed someday.:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-feature-requests/suggestions/33610747-add-an-option-for-trimming-side-bearings -
Chris
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Thank you...
Speak and it shall appear. I just updated to 2021 and tested it out. It's pretty close on the height. Much better.
But they didn't fix the part where the kerning/tracking is added to the full width instead of being the just full width of the vectors only..
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Chris, there is a new Font Height Options in the latest release that almost fully address this, along with Align to Text option.
