Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!daemon
From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: WfW and ATM - not quite WYSIWYG
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.125135.23096@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Sender: daemon@watserv1.waterloo.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo, WATMIMS Research Group
References: <69220012@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 91 12:51:35 GMT
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Tom Knotts <knotts@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com> writes:
> 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. [...]
> I thought that ATM was suppose to deliver accurate screen fonts to
> within a pixel. It seems that it is only accurate to @ 5%.

FaceLift behaves the same way.  I find it rather annoying, but I'll put up
with it for now.  I'm hoping that when TrueType finally comes out, it'll
be really WYSIWYG...

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