Improve character spacing and halos in exported .aix
I use halos on nearly every map I make. When exporting a map with haloed text, though, they always look something like this:
Here it is in Pro:
It seems that the halo itself is converting fine, but something's happening to the kerning.
In Pro, my character spacing is set to 0%, and the labeling option I am using doesn't even have an option to spread.
They should be 0 in Illustrator, then, too. When I hop over to Illustrator, though, I find that there are wildly different tracking values between characters.
If I select all and set them to 0, it looks fine. Why is the export messing with that? Luckily this map doesn't have that many labels and Illustrator has some good tools for selecting similar text, but it's just a little boggling that Pro is putting out a file that has altered tracking values.
Please improve the conversion of haloed text by keeping the tracking at the value set in Pro.
Ok, it looks like maybe this happens for labels with any kind of callout? My shields don't have a halo, but they do have a shield callout, and again, they have random tracking values causing them to spread way wider than they should.
Fixed:
Here is the workaround for those interested: select one of your problem labels, then go to Select > Same > Font Family, Style & Size. Then, in the character window set tracking to 0. Character window can be opened from Window > Type > Character.
However, this does not work if you altered the spacing or if your labeling positioning settings have made it variable.
Strangely, labels that did have extra character spacing in Pro convert in-line with their halos, but the whole ensemble is inconsistently shifted a bit. You can see that the top line has slightly condensed spacing compared to Pro whereas the bottom line has more spacing.
Pro:
Illustrator:
In this case, I'm unable to fix it since I can't really modify the spacing of the halos easily.
Hi @MadhuraPhaterpekar - is there any chance that this could be prioritized?
This is nothing short of infuriating that renders the extension useless. I have been wanting to use this for years but have yet to see it work as intended.
Like, this is a mess.
Even my legend text, which has no halo whatsoever, is messed up.
