How can I get the size of the correct text in MM

Hi all

(Illustrator CS4)

One thing was curious me using Illustrator. If I give myself a job and he said that the text should be 2 mm in height, how to do this? If I type 2mm in the tool of character text size when converted to paths is in fact of 1,444 mm? Is it possible to get the text right mm without guesswork!

Concerning

Matthew

One thing was curious me using Illustrator.

It is not a feature of Illustrator. It is a widespread misconception on type.

If I give myself a job and he said that the text should be 2 mm in height, how to do this?

Nobody knows. Because work who says such a thing doesn't have to define what means "2 mm of height". In the vast majority of the fonts, the glyphs are not all the same height. So, what do you want to use as your '2mm' standard, Mr. Job?

What glyph, Mr. Job, do you insist on being "2 mm of height"?

What the police, Mr. Job glyph, insist on being "2 mm of height"?

Because of his affinity with the sign trade, CorelDraw includes a feature that allows you to set the type of size depending on the height of the capitals. But even after using this function, you can find representations of glyphs in the text, which do not measure the value specified. Depending on the specific font.

Outside these characteristics in the draw and other programs focus on the sign, though, whenever you specify type of 2 mm in the current software (which the draw, when sizing type normally), you actually get 2 mm type - depending on how type is correctly measured.

People like Mr. Job to believe they are so precise, so intelligent, that when they "spec" type like this. It reveals really just ignorance on type. Specification type by a given ceiling height, without answering the questions above really specifies absolutely nothing relevant to legibility or readability of the type. Type glyphs that measure type "high 12 pt ' in a font may be completely different in terms of readability and legibility of type"high 12pts"in another.

If I type 2mm in the tool of character text size when converted to paths is in fact of 1,444 mm?

Which may or may not be true, depending on which glyph of what font you are measuring. But the measure that you specify is not devoid of sense. When you type 2mm in size of character field, you indeed get type of 2 mm. 2mm type is which measures 2mm across its square em. And this is true for any font. The em square is the "design space" type. The different contours of a given font are drawn in reference to this space. Who provides the flexibility necessary for the design of appropriate type.

Mr. Job must either learn something about type, or he needs to leave the problem of legibility/readability until someone who knows something about type. Why Mr. Job hire the designer sign in the first place?

Is it possible to get the text right mm without guesswork!

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Feel free to share in the comments above with Mr. Job. In this way, he can blame me, not you.

JET

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