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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: WP 5.0 and spacing - UGH
Message-ID: <1989Nov9.043103.4708@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 9 Nov 89 04:31:03 GMT
References: <489@ringwood.Morgan.COM>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <489@ringwood.Morgan.COM> joec@Morgan.COM (Joe Collins) writes:

>We type in a document that has only one space between
>words. When it prints, it oftens has 2 or more spaces
>where we put one.
>I have played with Word Spacing/Letter Spacing, but to no avail.
>The FONT I believe is a proportional font.

Unless you have justification turned on, WP's idea of the font widths
is not accurate.  WP generally only positions the first character of
a word, so a mismatch shows up as odd spacing between words.

>H/W: IBM PS2/55sx with 2m ram
>     NEC LC890 printer, running in laserjet mode
>S/W: WP 5.0 running under DOS 4.0

The 890 uses postscript fonts even when in HP mode (this is documented)
and the widths will likely be different than HP's.  Either switch
to postscript mode (why wasn't that your first choice?) or download
some HP soft fonts.

Les Mikesell
 les@chinet.chi.il.us