Use kinsoku – Adobe Illustrator CS3 User Manual

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ILLUSTRATOR CS3

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Choose Use Percentage (%) or Bu from the Units pop-up menu.

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Specify Desired, Minimum, and Maximum values for each option. The Minimum value is used to compress lines

for kinsoku (specify a value less than the Desired value). The Maximum value is used to spread lines for fully justified
text (specify a value greater than the Desired value).

Depending on the character type, you can specify the same values for Desired, Minimum, and Maximum if you don’t
want to change the spacing.

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Click Save or OK to save the settings. Click Cancel if you don’t want to save the settings.

When you compose Japanese text with a lot of half-width spaces or roman parentheses, problems relating to text
composition increase. We recommend that you avoid using roman parentheses, and use full-width parentheses for

Japanese composition. Only use roman parentheses when using relatively long English sentences in Japanese text, or
when a more serious problem results if you don’t use roman parentheses.

Work with mojikumi sets

In the Mojikumi Settings dialog box, do any of the following:

To export a set, click Export, select a location for the file, type a filename, and click Save. Illustrator saves the file
in MJK format.

To import a set, click Import, select an MJK file, and click Open.

To delete a set, choose it from the Mojikumi pop-up menu and then click Delete. All the text to which the
mojikumi set was applied will return to the default settings.

Note: You cannot delete predefined mojikumi sets.

Use kinsoku

Kinsoku specifies line breaks for Japanese text. Characters that cannot be placed at the beginning or end of a line are
known as kinsoku characters. Illustrator has hard kinsoku sets and soft kinsoku sets and Photoshop has weak and
maximum sets. Soft or weak kinsoku sets omit long vowel symbols and small hiragana characters. You can use these
existing sets, or add or delete kinsoku characters to create new sets.

You can also define hanging characters for hanging Japanese punctuation and define characters that cannot be split
when a line is exceeded.

You can specify whether to push in or push out text so that kinsoku characters are not placed inappropriately.

See also

“Display Asian type options” on page 333

Select kinsoku settings for a paragraph

In the Paragraph panel, choose an option from the Kinsoku Set pop-up menu:

None

Turns off the use of kinsoku shori.

Soft or Hard

Prevents selected characters from beginning or ending a line.

Create a new kinsoku set

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Do one of the following:

Choose Type > Kinsoku Shori Settings.

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