Straight type takes the tracking that keeps its length as the file set
it; type on a path took none, so letter-spaced type on a curve came back
closed up to the font's advances (an "OFFICIAL ISSUED" badge sat to one
side of its band, a condensed title ran off the end of its path). Type on
a path now takes the same tracking, its length measured along the path
from the first glyph to the end of the last.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>