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From: hermens@groucho
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Imagewriter Output spacing is bad!
Message-ID: <1990Sep12.033544.8082@groucho>
Date: 12 Sep 90 03:35:44 GMT
References: <1990Sep9.200530.20437@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <1990Sep11.102439.8619@diku.dk> <45684@cornell.UUCP>
Reply-To: hermens@ted.cs.uidaho.edu (Leonard Hermens)
Organization: University of Idaho, Moscow
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In article <45684@cornell.UUCP> hal@cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins) writes:
>>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. 
>>
>>>Is this a common mishap attributable to the Imagewriter driver or is
>>>there something that can be done about it?
>
>One thing that might help is to get Adobe's version of the LaserWriter
>screen fonts.  These have true italic, bold, and bold italic bitmaps
>and match the actual LaserWriter fonts much better than Apple's.
                      

                        I DID...


>I can't guarantee that Word knows how to handle them properly, but
>with most applications they produce very good results.
  

                        AND IT DOESN'T!



         >Hal Perkins                hal@cs.cornell.edu
         >Cornell CS


Leonard Hermens