Excessive line spacing with Adobe Opentype fonts esp Caslon Pro

[Jeremy]

Hi,

I'm trying to use Adobe Opentype fonts, including Adobe
Caslon Pro, within Microsoft Word 2003. The leading is
entirely too big.

In a readme included with Caslon, it told me that some
non-publishing applications would have this excessive
leading due to Caslon having some large ornament glyphs,
and the applications sometimes determine line spacing
based on the size of the largest glyph of the font.

The only remedy I have found is the one mentioned in the
readme, which is to set an exact point size line
spacing. This is rather tedious, especially if there are
lots of sections of different fonts on a page.

How can I make Word automatically correctly lead Caslon
and other Adobe fonts?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Maybe the ttf version...
http://bibliofile.duhs.duke.edu/gww/fonts/Unicode.html

 

[Jezebel]

I have had this problem with a couple of documents, also related to Opentype
fonts. It seemed to me that the fault is causing an actual document
corruption. Try saving the document as HTML: when I tried this I got a
warning message about superscript text, although there was definitely no
superscript in the document. I think the line spacing was as is if the text
included superscript material.

The problem is not consistent: I have several documents with apparently
identical layout, created from the same template, some of which show this
problem and some of which do not.

I've been able to fix it in most (but not all!) cases by copying the text to
a new document.

 

[Thomas Ferguson]

Options seem limited to: making use of styles, or highlighting all
sections that are to use the same line spacing and applying the format
all at once or the use of search/replace or writing a macro.

It seems to me that exact line spacing should be the default; however,
it is not. The reasons are historic.

I recall when exact line spacing was added to paragraph formatting in
Windows Word. One had to enter the spacing as a negative number to
invoke exact rather than at least spacing.

Tom
MSMVP-DTS

: Hi,
:
: I'm trying to use Adobe Opentype fonts, including Adobe
: Caslon Pro, within Microsoft Word 2003. The leading is
: entirely too big.
:
: In a readme included with Caslon, it told me that some
: non-publishing applications would have this excessive
: leading due to Caslon having some large ornament glyphs,
: and the applications sometimes determine line spacing
: based on the size of the largest glyph of the font.
:
: The only remedy I have found is the one mentioned in the
: readme, which is to set an exact point size line
: spacing. This is rather tedious, especially if there are
: lots of sections of different fonts on a page.
:
: How can I make Word automatically correctly lead Caslon
: and other Adobe fonts?