Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: ATM and font spacing problems with an imagewriterII Message-ID: <1989Oct25.000252.17867@NCoast.ORG> Date: 25 Oct 89 00:02:52 GMT References: <12138@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH Lines: 30 As quoted from <12138@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> by cohen@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Alexander Cohen): +--------------- | immediately found a great deal of spacing problems between certain letters | particularly when double m's or r's were involved. An `x` and an `e` | together, for example look horrible. The various letters involved | seem to differ between the various included fonts. This problem is | visible on the screen, but becomes very noticeable when printed on the | ImagewriterII, to the point of being unusable. | | 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. +--------------- The problem is with the ImageWriter driver, not with ATM. And Apple will have to rewrite it to make Royal fonts not have the same problem; the rewrite will do an equally good job of making ATM work right on ImageWriters. Don't flame Adobe for not being able to unscrew the inscrutable, namely the hidden and undocumented internals of printer drivers, or for not being able to rewrite copyrighted Apple code. The ImageWriter driver just plain can't cope with kerning, whatever the source. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@NCoast.ORG uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu bsa@telotech.uucp 161-7070 (MCI), ALLBERY (Delphi), B.ALLBERY (GEnie), comp-sources-misc@backbone [comp.sources.misc-related mail should go ONLY to comp-sources-misc@] *Third party vote-collection service: send mail to allbery@uunet.uu.net (ONLY)*