font character spacing wonky in Publisher 2007?

[Debencore]

I have a font which certain characters are too widely spaced in Publisher
2007. The font works fine in MS Word, and even in MS Pub Word Art, but in a
regular text box, there's a big space between certain characters. The only
way I've been able to make it work is to adjust character spacing with
tracking manually. No fonts are embedded, I checked.

It also worked fine in Publisher 2003, which I'm strongly considering going
back to, since I have a number of existing documents using this font.

(The font is "rhythms" which is a music font for use directly in documents.
It does have unusual spacing for a font, but what in Publisher is changing
that spacing?)

 

[Mary Sauer]

It is an unusual font. How are you trying to use it? Have you tried using the
character spacing in the Format menu?
I typed the exact same letter sequence in 2003, it looks identical to 2007.

 

[Debencore]

The "letters" that have unusual spacing are "d" "f" and "g". In music, this
makes a group of 16th notes for a rhythm example. (dffg makes a group of 4
16th notes.) As I mentioned in my original post, yes, I can manually adjust
using the character spacing (tracking) in the Format menu, though even that
seems difficult to work at times. It seems that you have to select a space
beyond the text you are trying to adjust in order to make it work.

 

[Mary Sauer]

I see what you mean. I don't know the answer. If you use the cap key, the three
are spaced correctly but there are the small numbers above the notes.

 

[Ed Bennett]

I have a font which certain characters are too widely spaced in Publisher
2007. The font works fine in MS Word, and even in MS Pub Word Art, but in a
regular text box, there's a big space between certain characters. The only
way I've been able to make it work is to adjust character spacing with
tracking manually. No fonts are embedded, I checked.

Have you tried turning off kerning?

 

[Debencore]

Yes, I tried that, and turning off kerning makes no difference.