Problems with AbiWord

[rsine69]

How do you fix the problem of unusual spacing between letters that keep coming up both on screen and when printed? Makes eveything look unprofessional looking.

[Mini Mia]

I know that in 'Publisher' you click on: Format; Character Spacing ... and set the Kerning. I've used this in my Publisher documents, but I've never even tried to find out how to do it in Word. However, I just looked and found you click on: Format; Font; Character Spacing; and set the Spacing. I don't have AbiWord, but I'd assume that you should find it in the same spot as it is in Word. So start with Format and if you don't see Character Spacing there, click on Font and search for it there.

[rsine69]

I thought you used AbiWord. Anyway, it's a stupid software glitch. Right now, I'm giving OpenOffice.org 3.3 a try.

[Mini Mia]

No, I use both Publisher & Word. Publisher for Church Bulletins and other booklets, signs/banners, etc. I use Word for my writing.

I Googled and found this:

Re: Kerning and character spacing

From: Dom Lachowicz
Date: Wed Mar 10 2004 - 15:55:53 EST

AbiWord doesn't do kerning. We'll probably add it at some future point.

osdir.com/ml/editors.abiword.user/2004-03/msg00062.html

[Mini Mia]

Kerning

Tracking -or- Letter Spacing

[stepper]

I don't use and hadn't heard of AbiWord, but you could try changing the font until you are ready to publish and switch to what ever you want at that point. Use something fixed/typewriter style.

[Mini Mia]

Rick, I'm reading 'The Indie Author Guide' by April L. Hamilton, and she mentioned that OpenOffice contains a PDF maker. I think you're gonna be glad you switched. I may even download it just to use for the PDF maker. I'm using The Pdf995 Suite at the moment, but she doesn't mention it in the book, so I may uninstall it and go with either OpenOffice, or one of these two PDF makers she does mention: CutePDF & PrimoPDF.

I highly recommend this book if you intend to indie-publish at some point. She shows you how to set up your writing folders/files on your computer, and gives an illustration of what it will look like. I have other self-publishing books to read next, but I've scanned through them and none of them go over setting up your folders/files in a way that makes it easier on you to go about your business. I'm also reading 'Perfect Pages' by Aaron Shepard, and playing around with creating writing templates. And Hamilton's book also gives you directions on how to create writing templates too. I'm going to save them as ShepardTemps & HamiltonTemps, and see how similar they are, and which I like better. You might also want to check out Shepard's Publishing Page too.