Anirudh Saxena

| UX Designer | 5+ years | Insur-Tech | Ed-Tech | Travel-Tech |

Kerning , Tracking, Leading and Confusing?

Does these technical typography terms confuse you every time, Well Not anymore.

Heres an easy way to remember these easily

Kerning

Kerning can be easily defined as a space between two letters.

 

How to adjust Kerning in Photoshop?

 

Step 1: Click on window>and select Character.

Now you’ll see the character/paragraph window.

Step 2: Now set the kerning value from this drop-down menu or simply enter a custom value

And see the spacing between two letters change.

 

Tracking

Tracking is the space between all the letters.

How to adjust Tracking in Photoshop?

Step 1: Click on window and select Character.

 

Now you’ll see the character/paragraph window.

Step 2: Now set the tracking value from this drop-down menu or simply enter a custom value

And see the spacing between letters change.

 

Leading

Leading is the space between the lines of a paragraph.

How to adjust Leading in Photoshop?

Step 1: Click on window>and select Character.

Now you’ll see the character/paragraph window.

 

Step 2: Now set the leading value from this drop-down menu or simply enter a custom value

And see the spacing between the lines of a paragraph change.

 

Still Confused?

Comment your doubts and I’ll help you out for sure.  ?

Happy Kerning oops Learning ..

 

 

SETTING AWSTATS ON CENTOS

SETTING AWSTATS ON CENTOS

 Commands 

1.yum install epel-release

2.INSTALL Apache if apache is not installed

# yum install httpd

# chkconfig httpd on

# service httpd start

3.INSTALL AWstats

# yum install awstats

4.Configure Apache for AWStats

# vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/awstats.conf

Alias /awstatsclasses “/usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/classes/”

Alias /awstatscss “/usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/css/”

Alias /awstatsicons “/usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/icon/”

ScriptAlias /awstats/ “/usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/”

 

<Directory “/usr/share/awstats/wwwroot”>

Options None

AllowOverride None

<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>

# Apache 2.4

Require host 192.168.0.0/24 //Change this to your IP

</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>

# Apache 2.2

Order allow,deny

Allow from 192.168.0.0/24 //change this to your IP

Allow from ::1

</IfModule>

</Directory>

 

<IfModule mod_env.c>

SetEnv PERL5LIB /usr/share/awstats/lib:/usr/share/awstats/plugins

</IfModule>

 

5.Restart Apache service to reload new settings

 

# service httpd restart

6.Create AWStats Configuration File

# cp /etc/awstats/awstats.localhost.localdomain.conf /etc/awstats/awstats.domain.name.conf

# vi /etc/awstats/awstats.domain.name.conf

7.Update below settings in awstats.domain.name.conf file

 

LogFile=”/var/log/httpd/domain.name-access_log”

SiteDomain=”domain.name”

HostAliases=”domain.name www.domain.name”

8.Now execute following command to update logs files

# sudo sh /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=domain.name -update

9.Schedule Cron to Update Logs

0 2 * * * /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=domain.name -update

10.Access AWStats in Browser

http://domain.name/awstats/awstats.pl?config=domain.name