MICR character spacing, what works best?

We're having issues with MICR spacing on our XML publisher based cheques in Oracle 11i. Basically our spacing changes from our desktop to our linux server so the MICR positioning is imprecise when it gets converted to PDF. So I'd love to know what other people are doing regarding MICR positioning. Are you;
- Making it one bring string in a cell?
- Breaking it up into it's components in different cells, i.e. Serial Number, Transit Number, Account Number etc
- Making up a table with cells for each single digit of the MICR String?
To give you some more details, the template is in RTF format.
I'd appreciate your ideas.
Cheers
Kofi
Edited by: Kofi on Apr 11, 2012 12:59 PM

The whole reason for using a relative unit, like ems, for tracking and kerning is it adjusts as you change the size of the type to maintain the specified spacing. If you switch to an absolute unit and adjust the type size your glyphs will either drift apart or pile up on each other.
And I don't think anyone here can even begin to tell you how you might accomplish such a feat in your custom GUI.

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