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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Word for Windows
Message-ID: <7138@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 90 15:03:42 GMT
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Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <3269@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>Do you mean that the screen font character widths aren't the actual
>printed width, relative to the ruler?  Is this true for all the
>fonts, or just some?
>
>Also, does WfW allow use of fonts other than the printer fonts?
>(I've got an Epson LQ-800, and I would like to occasionally
>use 30-point type for headlines and such, but if I'm still stuck
>with the standard printer fonts, there's no point in buying WfW
>without a laser printer).

You can select either the printer fonts or the builtin (Windows) raster and/or
vector fonts.

If you use the Windows fonts, then it is WYSIWYG, but since the printing
uses "graphics mode" of the printer, it is *very* slow. If you use the printer
fonts, the the display font is the closest aproximation, which is not
necessarily good. Particularly obnoxious is the onscreen justification does
not match the printed page (although the line breaks do).

So with your Epson you can get 30 point type by using one of the Windows
fonts, yet use printer fonts for speed in the body of the document. I have
found that the only printer fonts that appears properly with my Epson FX 1050
are the 10cpi fonts. The various compressed, expanded, and proportional fonts
display very badly (Windows Write has the same problem, yet AMI does OK).

It also bothers me that with a Postscript printer you are limited to a fixed
set of point sizes (that match the Windows fonts sizes) rather than being
allowed to select down to fractional increments (using WordPerfect, I set
the body text of my father's newsletter to 9.5 points, for example).

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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