Kerning in freehand

Question

if i apply fairly extreme kerning to display text in
Freehand, it looks fine on-screen but when it prints out, where one
character overlaps another, rather than blending the two characters
together as it does on screen, freehand crops the previous
character severely, through a vertical line based on the start of
the following character. it also does this on the last character in
a line, even though there is no character following for it to kern
with. the result looks ridiculous.
does anyone know how to correct this?

Answer 1

jarvis1 wrote:
> if i apply fairly extreme kerning to display text in
Freehand, [...] freehand
> crops the previous character severely,
Are you printing to a Postscript printer? This most
definitely should not
happen with a Postscript printer or interpreter (such as
Distiller).
Converting text to paths before printing would solve the
problem. Is that an
option?
Judy Arndt