Text Object - Character Spacing

[TLowder]

Crystal 8 (maybe doesn't happen in newer versions)

This is just a minor annoyance so it's not a big deal to me. But when I'm typing in a text object the character spacing looks like it should. When the object looses focus or is previewed, the character spacing is different. This causes extra lines in multi-line paragraphs and words look funny. For example the word "employee" sometimes shows the "y" almost merged with the "e" and sometimes not. It happens on all other words too but that is just one example that is the more noticable. It's inconsistant so if I type/copy the same word over and over it looks different from one to the next.
I've tried different fonts with the same results, although some are less noticable. The font I am using is Times New Roman (Western). Character spacing is set to 0. Is there a setting I'm missing? Has anyone else noticed this? Most reports don't have more than a word or 2 in text objects, so many of you may have never noticed this. If anyone uses ver 8 could you let me know if you see the same thing, or maybe even other versions. It's like crystal is trying to create its own character spacing instead of leaving the font specific spacing alone. I could just find a font that looks the best and leave it alone, but that would be too easy .

Thanks,
Tom

Tom

 

[kenhamady]

I use 8.5 and I don't see this. You are on 8.0 and not 8.5?
Any chance your alignment is set to 'justified'?
Does this carry through to the printout or just in preview?
Does it change if you zoom in or out in preview?
Does it change if you change your monitor resolution or switch printers in Printer Setup?

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[TLowder]

Thanks for the suggestions, and you are right.

It's ver 8.0.1.
Allignment is left - I don't see a justified setting
It does print fine.
If I zoom to %200 in looks fine too.
I didn't try the last idea because it only looks funny directly it Crystal. In my software, reports viewed through crviewer are fine too, and that is where it really counts. So I guess this isn't really an issue at all, I just thought it was.

Thanks,

Tom