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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan J Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word 5 Wishes
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.064929.15592@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 Jan 91 06:49:29 GMT
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palmer@nntp-server.caltech.edu (David Palmer) writes:

>USE FONT NAMES INSTEAD OF FONT NUMBERS IN SAVED FILES, PLEASE.

  YES, YES, YES!  The number of times I've had Avant Garde on my
machine at home, then taken a word document into the office to print
out on the LaserWriter, and found that the font ID for AG on my
machine is different than that on the office machine.....

  Isn't the use of font names instead of font numbers the recommended
way to handle fonts now?  It's a terribly confusing thing to a user
to have their document which was beautifully laid out, suddenly switch
into a mess of misaligned characters and blocky fonts when they take
it to a different machine...

  Do the other word processors currently out there handle this any
better?  (I'm thinking of Nisus in particular, which is likely to get
my vote if Word 5.0 doesn't shape up in a big way).

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