You have to activate it by checking a box in the Font dialog box... so irrational it's painful to contemplate.
I can imagine they did this for backward compatibility's sake (kerning would impact page layout), but consider the fact that 90% of the word processed documents produced today have crappy kerning because it was hidden behind a checkbox nobody will ever touch.
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Kerning is not enabled by default in Word?
http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?p=766
You have to activate it by checking a box in the Font dialog box... so irrational it's painful to contemplate.
I can imagine they did this for backward compatibility's sake (kerning would impact page layout), but consider the fact that 90% of the word processed documents produced today have crappy kerning because it was hidden behind a checkbox nobody will ever touch.
They could have just enabled it by default for new documents.