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From: klaus@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Imagewriter Output spacing is bad!
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.084403.11069@diku.dk>
Date: 13 Sep 90 08:44:03 GMT
References: <1990Sep9.200530.20437@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <1990Sep11.102439.8619@diku.dk> <1990Sep12.022636.7963@cbnewsc.att.com>
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straka@cbnewsc.att.com (richard.j.straka) writes:

>In article <1990Sep11.102439.8619@diku.dk>, klaus@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen) 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. 
>| I have this problem too. The apple dealer says that Times is for
>| laserwriters only, use Geneva for the imagewriter. This is very
>| frustrating, as Geneva does not look nearly as good as Times, but
>| it works. Does anyone know what is happening?

>The problem here is that you probably have fractional font spacing turned
>off.  You can turn it on again by checking the box in the page setup dialog
>box.  An INIT called AlwaysFract exists that forces fractional font spacing
>on as a default in MSWord.  Very handy.
>-- 
>Richard Straka                  AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH-6K311
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I have the same problem using MacWriteII, which does not
have a fractional font spacing check box in its page setup dialog

Klaus Kristiansen