Quark Tracking vs Indesign Tracking

[kinch]

Hello all,

I'm currently in a Graphic Communications course. When we learned Quark, we were taught to only use tracking values of -3 to +3 for body copy.

I'm just wondering if Tracking values are calculated differently in indesign? I most definately think they are, because it seems that I can barely do anything with those figures!

So if I am right, which I am sure I am, what would be acceptable guidelines for tracking out body copy in Indesign?

[urstwile]

Quark measures tracking and kerning in 1/200th of an em units, InDesign (as well as Illustrator and Photoshop) measure in 1/1,000th of an em, thus it take a higher number to achieve the equivalent tracking in InDesign that you'd achieve in Quark.

[kinch]

Are you sure it's not the other way around. 1/1200 is smaller than 1/1000

[kinch]

Never mind, I should get glasses! I knew it was dramaticly different