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From: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)
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Subject: Re: Imagewriter Output spacing is bad!
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Date: 10 Sep 90 17:30:24 GMT
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In article <1990Sep9.200530.20437@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> aras@ecerl1.ece.ncsu.edu (Caglan Aras) writes:
>When printing with proportional fonts, (I use Times and have 12 and 24
>point installed ) from Word 4.0 on the Imagewriter II, most lines are
>crunched, the spaces lost. It gets worst with bolds and italics, there
>some letters run over others. 

You know, I have run into something like this too and I would really like to
know what is going on.

Using MacWriteII (latest version) mainly but also other applications that
support proportional fonts, I consistently get crowding on the imagewriterII.
For example, if I type (708) 651-3333, the 6 will be rammed into the ")".
However, If I type (708)651-3333, the 6 will actually be placed further to the
right. In other words, it almost appears that the space is resulting in a
NEGATIVE space spacing in some cases. Note also that this seems to vary from
font to font. I tend to have trouble with Bookman (a corrected
version of Adobe's screen font)

I though that this was the application at first but even when using straight
text editors and printing things out, you see the same thing. I am beginning to
believe that there is something strange in the way the imagewriter driver works
that no one has either:

a) discovered it yet or

b) wants to tell anyone that it has been discovered :-)

Even if it Can't be "fixed", I would sure like to know what is wrong though.

Any ideas out there?


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