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From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet Prop Fonts on WordPerfect?
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Date: 21 Oct 89 05:33:05 GMT
References: <7263@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu>
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In article <7263@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu>, by kim@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Geoffrey K Kim):
asks about getting proportional fonts to work right with WordPerfect.

     I spent quite a long time and a lot of work figuring out the printer
driver for my Radio Shack Daisy Wheel II printer.  One of the tasks
involved building a character table for my proportional font.  It requires
knowing (1) the microspacing unit the printer uses (1/60" for the DW2) and
(2) how many microspace units each character requires.  When you build the
character table you may have to translate to a different microspace unit
(1/120") and convert the number of units per character accordingly.  The
problem I've run into on other printers is the documentation doesn't tell
you the spacing the printer uses for proportional fonts.

--Fabbian Dufoe
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