FrameMaker 8 Automatic Letter Spacing Broken?

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Mike,

Yes, I can verify this behavior with FrameMaker 8 on Windows XP.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com

>I posted this topic a couple of days ago with no response. Probably I made 
>it too complicated. :) Can someone please tell me if they see the same 
>problem with FM8?
>
> 1. Click in a sample body text paragraph.
>
> 2. In the Paragraph Designer, set alignment to justified. Extra space is 
> added between words to make the text line reach the right-hand margin. It 
> works as expected.
>
> 3. Now, in the Advanced tab of the Paragraph Designer, check the Allow 
> Automatic Letter Spacing checkbox. Some lines in the paragraph jump back 
> from the right-hand margin, and are no longer justified! (You may have to 
> change your zoom level to see it, and it's more obvious in narrow columns 
> than wide ones.) FM applies letter spacing to words on some lines, and 
> those are the lines that lose justification.
>
> Justification and Automatic Letter Spacing used to work together. Now, 
> only one or the other works. Is anyone else seeing this?
>
> Mike Wickham
> FrameMaker 8.0p236 (trial version)
> Windows XP Pro
>
> P.S. I have DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics=On in maker.ini, but the problem 
> exists whether it's on or off. PDFs match what I see on screen.