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From: knotts@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Tom Knotts)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: WfW and ATM - not quite WYSIWYG
Message-ID: <69220012@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 15 Jan 91 17:13:19 GMT
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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I am running WFW with ATM and postscript. When I have WFW in standard
viewing mode (not Page and not Draft), the text is not quite WYSIWYG.
The text looks correct in shape and style, but the line breaks are not
the same as they will be when printed. To get the line breaks to show
correctly, I must switch the viewing mode to Page. But now the text
extends beyond the right margin. It seems that the displayed text is
slightly bigger (about 5%) than the actual printed text. So to show the
proper line breaks, the displayed text must extend beyond the margin.
Interestingly, if I have a box around the paragraph, the box goes right
to the margin, and the text crosses over the border of the box.  When it
prints, it is exactly correct. The text stays within the box and margin.

I thought that ATM was suppose to deliver accurate screen fonts to
within a pixel. It seems that it is only accurate to @ 5%.

tom