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From: tisu@quads.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue)
Subject: TrueType glitch?
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.085110.18717@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: tisu@midway.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue)
Organization: Plaster Cramp Press
References: <1991Mar16.211505.12557@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> <4067@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 08:51:10 GMT

Got TrueType off apple.com last night and I've done some playing around with
it.  The only problem or incompatibility I've noticed so far is when using
the Courier font in PageMaker 4.0; as a test, I typed in a large, centered
text block (large enough so that 5-6 lines pretty much filled a sideways
letter-size page), and the spacing was incorrect; the letters were too close
together (touching, in fact).  This didn't happen with smaller point sizes.
Perhaps someone else could perform this simple test and see if they observe
the same thing.  (BTW, yes I was careful to remove all other traces of
Courier, screen and laser, from my system.)  System 6.0.5, TrueType 1.0,
ATM 1.2.

Will the rest of the standard Apple laser fonts (Palatino, Helvetica Narrow,
and so forth) be available at no charge from Apple?  I don't have money to
spend on fonts, so TrueType won't be much use for me if nothing is provided
beyond Courier, Times, Helvetica, and Symbol.
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