@orion44: The default libraries with c#/winforms don't have any 'character spacing' options as far as I know... anybody got any ideas?
Also, SE 3.5.8 is out - Now again includes Tesseract 3.02 per default and an in-program option to download the new Tesseract 4 (Tesseract 4 is pretty slow and do not have italic detection - but it has more languages + works better for small difficult fonts).
Also the translate works somewhat again...
Link to release page on github:
https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/releases