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From: bezanson@adobe.COM (Brian Bezanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ATM and font spacing problems with an imagewriterII
Keywords: ATM, ImagewriterII, Font Spacing
Message-ID: <1355@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 89 22:16:58 GMT
References: <12138@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: bezanson@adofe.UUCP (Brian Bezanson)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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In article <12138@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> cohen@sybil.cs.buffalo.edu.UUCP (Alexander Cohen) writes:
>A recent posting from Adobe mentioned turning on the Fraction Width
>feature, but this only works with the Laserwriter.

Fractional Spacing isn't a laserwriter only option, otherwise FullWrite,
MacWrite II, Quark, and PageMaker wouldn't print nicely on the ImageWriter.
If you're using Word 4, they don't support fractional widths to the imagewriter
and I can't say why or why not.

>	What gives?  How can I get respectable spacing?  

  Use applications that use fractional spacing, this way they'll get proper
values for the widths.

>	In other respects, ATM seems fairly slick, but if they don't
>address this spacing problem, Apple will be having the last laughs with
>Royal.

  Royal won't fix the spacing problems for applications that go by old ways,
unless they somehow try to patch everything, which would tend to make things
break more. Following Apple in the past, I assume they'll make people follow
their lead - which would mean using fractional widths, 32-bit clean, etc...

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Brian Bezanson                                          bezanson@adobe.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated           The opinions expressed above are my
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