Adobe illustrator 10 Manuale Utente

To use a font’s kerning information to space characters, you can select the Auto-Kerning 
option in the Character palette. Many Roman fonts contain information about the spacing 
of character pairs. For example, the spacing between an A and a W often is less than the 
spacing between an A and an F. 

You can also choose a specific kerning value, rather than Auto-Kerning, in the Character 
palette until you finish creating your type. Then select the type and apply auto-kerning 
to it. 

1 Choose Select > All.

2 In the Character palette, choose Auto from the Kerning   pop-up menu or type Auto in 
the text box. 

Enter 0 in the Kerning text box. 

Baseline shift controls the distance that type appears from its baseline, either raising or 
lowering the selected type. The Baseline Shift option lets you create subscripts or super-
scripts or move path type above or below a path without changing the direction of the 
type flow. For example, using the path-type tool on a circle positions type above the circle. 
Using the Baseline Shift option, you can move the type inside the circle without changing 
the type’s orientation.

A positive value moves type above the baseline; a negative value moves it below the 
baseline. Baseline shift is measured by points unless you change the option set in the Type 
pop-up menu in the Units & Undo Preferences dialog box.

1 Select a type container or type path using a selection tool, or select a block of type 
using the type tools.

2 If the Baseline Shift button   is not visible in the Character palette, choose Show 
Options from the palette menu.

3 Enter a value in the Baseline Shift text box, or press Up Arrow or Down Arrow to 
increase or decrease baseline shift.

4 Press Enter or Return.

Horizontal scale and vertical scale specify the proportion between the height and width of 
the type relative to the baseline. You can adjust scale to compress or expand selected 
characters in both width and height.