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From: tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet Prop Fonts on WordPerfect?
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Date: 26 Oct 89 17:00:19 GMT
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phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) writes:
>     My copy of the new WordPerfect arrived last night. I got it installed
>and running and printed out a test version of next issue's editorial in two
>justified, proportionally-spaced-font columns.
>     It worked great. Cleanly aligned, proportionally spaced. I was so happy
>to have gotten rid of that *&($!!! Courier 10 print wheel that I was bouncing
>around the house all last night. :-)
Whew!  Thanks for the good news, R'ykandar!  My experimenting last night
revealed that the problems with the _OLD_ WP version were worse than I
thought:  if you make all "adjusts" zero, columns line up.  If you then
change the adjust for only one character, the test page is screwed up
everywhere, not just at the character you changed the adjust of.  So I was
really worried.
...
>     Interestingly enough, 4.1.11(?) allows you to set an average characters-
>per-inch value when in proportional mode. (I don't know whether earlier
>versions of the software did this or not). Tinkering with that made a _big_
>difference in how the output looked, although I didn't have problems with
>alignment at any setting. I found an average pitch of 14 Proportional to
>work best with my wheel...
The old one let you do that, too.  And there aren't limits like only 10, 12
and 15 pitch, as there are with other fonts (I believe).  I think you could
go in and edit the character table so the result is optimized for a given
pitch setting:  that is, you could make separate character tables for
different pitch settings.  Then you could make assignments of each of them
to different fonts for the printer.  Then when you set a new pitch in the
document, you would also select the appropriate font --> character table.
Just a thought.  (The test document, "PS.TST" on the learn disk, sets
the proportional pitch to 13 and the font to 3, BTW.)

>                                                    - R'ykandar.
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Again, thanks for the uplifting posting!

Tom Bruhns
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