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From: ronkko@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Problem with PPage fonts
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.185724.5171@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 26 Feb 91 18:57:24 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
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Why is it that some of the bitmap representations of Post Script fonts on 
PPage 1.3 "Fonts & utilities disk" don't work in other programs? They appear 
extremely condensed on the screen, so that they are impossible to use. I 
have noticed that e.g. Times 24 (but not the other sizes) and all sizes of 
Symbol font are distorted this way (I have tested them in ProWrite, Excellence,
Notepad, DPaint III etc.). Is there a good reason for this? I thought that all
bitmap fonts are basically similar and can be used in all programs... Why aren't
all of the PPage fonts behaving similarly? On the other hand, all of the bitmap
representations of Adobe fonts on WB 1.3 Extras -disk work fine with PPage
(also Times 24!)! If there is an easy fix for this bug, I would be most
interested to hear it...:-)    


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  Reijo Ronkko     University of Helsinki, Dept. of General Microbiology,
                   Mannerheimintie 172, 00300 Helsinki, FINLAND
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                   Ronkko@cc.helsinki.fi
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