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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: Wordup 3.0 printing problem
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.232756.3721@math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 90 23:27:56 GMT
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In article <1990Dec9.180347.9280@agate.berkeley.edu> jmorton@euler.berkeley.edu (John Morton) writes:
>[I might as well get this in before everybody just throws away their 
>copies of Wordup 3.0.]  

>I believe a couple of people mentioned that printing actually works
>for them.  It doesn't for me, and I have a pretty ordinary printer,
>an Epson FX-85.

>Text Mode:

>There appears to be only one text mode driver, EPSONFX.TPD, which
>prints by going over each word twice.  It also creates lines which
>are too long too fit without wrapping.  Must one enter text in a
>certain way for text mode printing to work?

I haven't used it a whole lot, but I've at least gotten this working.
The "Text mode" is intended to let you use the NLQ fonts built-in to
your printer, if any. I've gotten pretty decent results on my Panasonic
1091i, writing a document in Courier font and printing in Text mode
with the printer set to Courier font. There are two points to remember
though - you're probably not going to get very good results using a
proportional screen font unless your printer also has a proportional
font. Otherwise, it's best to stick to a fixed-pitch font on the screen.
I don't know the Epson FX85 off the top of my head, but my guess is it's
a relatively old model, and doesn't do proportional spacing with its
internal fonts.
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  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan

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