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From: laird@slum.MV.COM (Laird Heal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Imagewriter Spacing
Summary: modify the double-sized font 'sibling'
Keywords: ResEdit
Message-ID: <1990Sep16.013452.576@slum.MV.COM>
Date: 16 Sep 90 01:34:52 GMT
References: <7072@alvin.mcnc.org> <26EE949D.6BDF@wilbur.coyote.trw.com>
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In article <26EE949D.6BDF@wilbur.coyote.trw.com>, jost@acme.coyote.trw.com 
(Patrick Jost) writes:

>In article <7072@alvin.mcnc.org> omo@mcnc.org (Julie E. Omohundro) writes:
>>I'm not sure why Word 4.0 messes up on Times, either, but...
>>whenever I don't like the spacing in 4.0, I go in under Page Setup
>>and turn on Fractional Widths (or turn it off, if it's already on).
>>This often helps; you might try it with Times.  But probably you're
>>better off sticking with New York instead.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>
>Yes! Times is a Laserwriter font! Unless you're using a Laserwriter, you'll
>get less-than-ideal results, unless you use Times with ATM...then things
>should improve!

To each their own - way back when Apple released the first screen font for
Times, I modified the 18, 20 and 24 sizes to print very nicely on my IM I.
A later release was not suited to easy modification, and I later lost track
of the changed font because I did the same thing to Courier resuling in a
much more readable but monospaced font.

With such a monospaced, customized font I have never seen a problem with
printer spacing on the ImageWriter, and it looks very much like what my
typewriter produces too!

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