Path: utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ATM
Message-ID: <5127@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 89 14:04:35 GMT
References: <5907@shlump.nac.dec.com> <2046@network.ucsd.edu> <1432@adobe.UUCP> <2061@network.ucsd.edu> <1442@adobe.UUCP> <2062@network.ucsd.edu> <1450@adobe.UUCP> <2067@network.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <2067@network.ucsd.edu> dpaight@weber.UUCP (Dan Paight) writes:
> ...
>Somehow, this doesn't make me feel any better about the advertising
>people at Adobe (or whomever Adobe contracted with). No matter whose
>fault it is, the incompatability problems with such popular programs
>as MS Word ought to be made clear in the small print. 

What incompatibility? Word's spacing ranges from mediocre at normal
type sizes to terrible at larger sizes. Even my clients, who are no where
near as fussy about type as I am, notice the poor spacing in my draft
manuals. That's why I do my drafts in Word and the final copy in Xpress.
Even then, I have to manually kern all the pairs involving apostrophes.
(Fortunately, XPress has a built-in kerning editor, so I only have to do
this once per typeface.) I really don't think Adobe is obligated to
add statements like "we can't compensate for so-and-so's lack of
typesetting ability" to their product.


-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
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