Negative character tracking

Is there any way to do negative character tracking? Other than to individually separate each character.
It is possible in many other apps such as Muse, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop. Why is not a feature in Adobe Edge Animate?

Use css letter-spacing, example an element I have on the Stage called 'Text'
// Place code in event handler
// Change the element reference to reflect your element
sym.$("Text").css({"letter-spacing":"-10px"});
Darrell

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Hi all,
based on [1], it looks like there is no solution but I want to make sure. Let's say I have to lines as follows:
author
long title
where "author" is in a 20 pt Arial font and "long title" in a 10 pt Minion font.
Is there an automatic character tracking solution in Illustrator so that "author" and "long title" exactly horizontally line-up?
thanks
[1] http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WSC7A7BE38-87CE-4edb-B55A-F27458444E40a. html#WSFDC62A15-2AC5-4d99-A31E-CA7BE570D3D6http://

You can try "Fit Headline"

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If I select -100 in the drop-down, I get -68.
If I select -50, I get -34.
If I try typing the number manually, it switches to those new values just like the drop-down does.
I can't for the life of me tell Photoshop to set character tracking to -100, -50, or ANYTHING anywhere near specific. It's like it does a little math when we choose a number, and modifies that number according to this math.
The math appears to be "change it to 68% of whatever the designer set it to", but it might actually be more complex than that.
Is there a fix for this? Did I accidentally toggle something on?

What exact version of Photoshop. What platform, Mac or Win? What exact version of the OS?
No mind readers or clairvoyants here.
Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419981?tstart=0
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Illustrator save as SVG: losing character tracking information

Hello,
I'm trying to save two different versions of a certain SVG using Illustrator.
The sole difference between the two versions is that a certain text element's tracking attribute was set.
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Any pointers would be much appreciated.
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Hi Ianmcarey,
Thanks for the detailed Explanation. We will investigate this Requirement of Exporting Character style classes in the SVG code.
Thanks and Regards,
Mohit Gupta.

Character tracking in Photoshop Elements

I am using Photoshop Elements version 10. I am trying to increase the spacing of characters. Everywhere I go for help it says to use the character panel under Windows. I don't have that. Am i missing something?

quezang
The Adobe Photoshop Elements is the best place for Photoshop Elements questions, so please take a look at the following which may be what you are looking for (straight from the Adobe Photoshop Elements threads)....
Script: Adjust tracking (character spacing) of text
Please let us know if that worked for you.
From what I have found...you can adjust the spacing between lines of text in Photoshop Elements 10, but there is no adjusting the spacing between letters within the program as offered.
ATR

Can character tracking based on centers, rather than edges?

I would like to space characters in a line of text evenly, based on their centers, such that the letters in two rows of text would be horizonatally aligned, regardless of the letters used. I know I could convert to outlines, and then space objects evenly, but I would like to avoid that if possible.

Thanks, tonyharmer and Mike. Yes it is a small amount of text - the 26 letters of the alphabet, however it's more complicated that what I described in my first post. I'm creating a simple cipher tool that will consist of two concentric circles of paper, one slightly larger than the other, with the letters of the alphabet printed on the outer edge of each. Lining up different letters from the inside and outside circles creates the code.
To acheive this, I created the circles, used type on a path to enter the letters and set the justification to full. I can get the starting and ending letters to line up perfectly, but they get off due in the middle due to the varying widths of letters.
Can tabs be positioned relative to each other, such that I would be able to spread out 25 of them across a line, even if the line length changes? I guess what I need is tabs positioned by degrees of a circle, (probably not a feature in high demand.)
If I converted the text to outline, could I evenly distribute the letters around the circle?

Moving selected parts of text

This is probably a dumb question, but how do I move select parts of text? I have a "B" and a "G" that I put into Illustrator using the text tool. When I go to move the "G" onto the lower corner of the "B", it selects both letters and moves them as a block.

C,
To elaborate (further) on what Emil said, you may use Character>Baseline Shift with a nrgative value on the G selected separately and then apply a negative Character>Tracking, or go back and forth between the two operations.
Here is such a BG as live (editable) Type with a colour change of the G (the fairest font in 72pt, baseline shift -30pt, tracking -100).
As mentioned earlier, there is a lot of things that cannot be done with live Type.

Regex gurus: Intermittent stack overflow from Matcher?

I've been using the following code to grep out links from <a> tags in html. For some pages it is throwing stack overflows from within the pattern matcher class. I am wondering, is there a better way to be doing this, or did I make some kind of mistake that is causing this to happen? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Never do this in a regex: "(.|\n)" // WRONG If you want to match any character including line separators, use the dot in DOTALL mode: "(?s)." If there are characters you don't want to match, you can use a negated character class. In this case, you probably don't want to match angle brackets, so you could use this: "[^<>]" The way you're doing it (alternation) is extremely inefficient. Also, you aren't allowing for other kinds of line separator, like "\r\n" (DOS) and "\r" (older Mac OS). But if you do it the right way, you don't need to worry about that.

Applying RegularExpression on a String

Hi guys,
I have a string like "(a>5) AND (B>8) OR (C+7)"
Now, i want to get that AND and OR.
Is there any simple way to get that using regular expression.
Is it possible to apply a regular expression that retuns the string that is between ")" and "(".
if so, pls tell what is that regular expression?
--Subbu

codingMonkey wrote:
[\\){1}\\.*\\({1}]
There are several problems with this regex. First, the square brackets define a character class, which matches precisely one of the characters within the brackets. Thus, this regex will match one of the characters, '(', ')', '{', '}', '.', '*', or '1'. (Within a character class, most regex metacharacters lose their special meanings, so the braces match literal braces even though they aren't escaped.)
By the way, there is never any reason to use "{1}" in a regex. It's legal, but it's just noise; everything matches exactly once unless you specify otherwise.
Second, if you remove the square brackets, you end up with a regex that matches from the first close-parenthesis to the last open-parenthesis, because the '*' quantifier is greedy. If you don't want it to match all of ") AND (B>8) OR (" in one go, you need to make the quantifier non-greedy (or reluctant) by appending '?' to it. Or you could avoid the issue by using a negated character class, like Darryl did.
Finally, your regex matches the parentheses, when the OP only wanted to match what lies between them. Darryl showed one way to accomplish that, by using lookarounds. Another way is to use capturing groups: String str = "(a>5) AND (B>8) OR (C+7)";
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A regex question

Hi all,
I'm trying to get a regular expression used in java to only replace all commas with '#' in a blanket from a specific string.
eg:
original string:"aaa,bbb,to_char(p.sss,'999,999,999.9999') sss,ddd,to_char(eee,'999,999'),fff"
desired output:"aaa,bbb,to_char(p.sss#'999#999#999.9999') sss,ddd,to_char(eee#'999#999'),fff"After some researches,I got this: "(?<=$[^$]{1,50}),(?=[^$]{1,100}$)".This one works fine in regex tools such as RegexBuddy..etc..
However the java program(jdk 1.5.0) seems not work correctly:
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     }the output still "aaa,bbb,to_char(p.sss,'999,999,999.9999') sss,ddd,to_char(eee,'999,999'),fff"It seems there is something wrong with the "positive lookahead",but as far as I know,java can support this kind of regex: (?<=\$[^\$]{1,100}?)Any ideas?
Thanks!

Right: we consume some of the text with one part of the regex to prevent the other part from seeing it. Here's the breakdown I promised:
With the lookaround approach, we were essentially locating a comma first, then looking backward and forward to figure out whether we should replace it. Since the lookbehind turned out to be unreliable, we need to start matching at some point before the comma, in such a way that all of the ineligible commas either get ignored, or get matched within a capturing group so we can plug them back into the replacement string. The first thing we need to do is match everything up to the first open-parenthesis, because we know we can ignore any commas before that point. As a standalone regex, that part would look like this: "[^(]+\\(" Once we're inside the parens, we can go ahead and match everything up to the next comma. In case we find a set of parentheses with no commas in it, we also add the close-paren to the negated character class: "[^),]+," That works fine for the first match, but it will break down after that because the first part will match everything up to the next open-paren, including the rest of the contents of the first set of parens. That part was meant to fail within parens; that's why it's optional. Since it's required to match an open-paren, and the only way it can reach the next one of those is to match the the intervening close-paren, we can fix it by adding the close-paren to the open-paren in the character class: "[^()]+\\(" And that's all we really need. Once the last comma inside the parens is matched, the first part of the regex takes us up the the next open-paren, where the second part takes over again. The lookbehind turns out not to be necessary once the rest of the regex is properly tuned--it was left over from my earlier attempts to create a working regex. The open-paren in the second character class isn't really needed either, but it doesn't hurt anything and it helps express our intentions. And, as I said earlier, the possessive quantifiers just make the regex a little more efficient. str = str.replaceAll("((?:[^()]++\\()?+[^(),]++),", "$1#"); Although we developed this regex as a replacement for a lookaround-based one, I would encourage everyone to look for non-lookaround solutions first. Despite all the enhancements that have been made to regexes over the years, they still work best when used in a forward-looking, positive-matching style like what we ended up with here.

Regular expression expert needed

what is the diffrence between String s;
s.split("\[,\]");
and
s.split(",");
?

flounder wrote:
Basically no difference. The square brackets are used for a group of delimeters (not sure of the exact regex terminology). The square brackets are called character classes or character sets.
flounder wrote:
So if I had "[abc]" then it would split on either an 'a' 'b' or 'c'. So in your example having only a single char inside the brackets is pointless.You can see character sets as a mini-language inside the regex language. The normal meta characters from regex do not apply inside character sets, they have their own meta characters, which are the '-' and '^' (besides the square brackets themselves, of course). Also, these two meta characters need to be placed at certain places inside the character set to be valid. The '-' is a range indicator only between two characters, but not when placed at the start or end of a character class. And the '^' is a negation character only when placed a the start of a character class, otherwise it will just match the characters '^' itself.
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[-ac]   // matches '-', 'a' or 'c'
[ac-]   // matches 'a', 'c' or '-'
[^ab]   // matches any character except 'a' and 'b'
[a^b]   // matches 'a', '^' or 'b'
[.?*]   // matches '.', '?' or '*'

IWeb 09 + Snow Leopard = Character Spacing / Tracking Disaster!

I have a big problem. Upgraded to Snow Leopard, all went fine... but now much of the text in my iWeb 09 pages are all bunched on top of each other, where they looked fine before. This is primarily a problem with title text, and happens with all new text as well. It seems like at a standard size font, the letters are just a little too close together. But as you increase the size of the font... the letters do not get any more space between them, so the larger titles look like just a pile of letters on top of each other, and are completely and 100% unreadable.
I have tried using the "Character Spacing" slider in Inspector and it literally does nothing, I have tried using the "Loosen Tracking" option in the Format\Font menu and it similarly does nothing at all. I have tried switching fonts and have tried starting new text boxes, and nothing has any effect whatsoever.
I cannot update any of my sites until this gets resolved. Can anybody help?
Screenshot here: http://img22.yfrog.com/i/exampletrackingproblemi.tif/

Try quitting iWeb. deleting the preference file - Home Folder/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iWeb.plist, restarting your Mac, running Disk Utility to repair permissions and then relaunching the application.
iWeb troubleshooting is covered here.....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/iWebTips.html
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Is it possible to have a character counter visible for users to see and keep track as they complete a text field that has a maximum character set? Also, would it be possible to prohibit users from entering any additional text once the character maximum has been met?
Thanks!

Sorry we do not support these features for the HTML form format (the PDF form doesn't show the character count either but does prevent user from typing more chararacters after the limit is reached).
You can submit a Feature Request here :
http://forums.adobe.com/community/formscentral?view=overview
Click on the "Submit Feature Request" on the right.
Gen

Text tracking settings in the character panel of Photoshop CC

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Weird tracking numbers in character palette in Photoshop CC

Hi all,
Have Adobe changed the way tracking values are interpreted in Photoshop CC?
Just that if I select a line of text like normal and then set the tracking to eg. -50 when the change of tracking is made to the text this -50 value then turns into -11! which I don't understand!
It doesnt matter what i change it to the value then automatically changes to a weird number value, if I try tracking of -25, it changes to -5! What is going on here, is there a setting I need to check or change?
Really confusing how its currently setup.
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