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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows, Windows Write, Fonts, Epson LQ
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Date: 5 May 90 00:14:08 GMT
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In article <3572@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
|Well that's a bit of rip!  It means that all the font choices that
|are nominally available aren't really available.  It would also
|explain why changing from 180x180 to 360x180 resolution causes the
|fonts to be even more compressed in width.

I was playing around with Write and an HPLJ and I wonder if the
problem isn't related to how you are chosing your fonts. In the
Character Fonts menu, you can either select a font and size
from a list or type in a size that you want. This second choice
tends not to be too good. You can display it on your screen but
if it's not in the list, it's not supported by the printer and
I guess Windows doesn't do a good job of faking it. I don't think
it would be too easy to fake it anyway.

Winword doesn't seem to do a lot better, nor does Excel. One
solution of course is to get a Postscript printer. In any case,
your output will look much better if you chose a size from the
selection offered to you instead of telling it a size.

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