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From: wscott@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Wayne H Scott)
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Subject: Re: TrueType glitch?
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.124746.22658@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 12:47:46 GMT
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In article <1991Mar18.085110.18717@midway.uchicago.edu> tisu@quads.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue) writes:
>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.

Did the letters touch when you printed it?

The problem I had was that the "smart-quote" characters are backwards in
Courier.  (option-[ and option-shift-[)  Other people check to see if I
am just crazy, but if you turn on smart-quotes in Word 4 and type something
in quotes they are backwards.  Changing to a different font fixes the problem.


>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.
>-- 
>---- Seth Tisue                     USMail: c/o Plaster Cramp Press  
>---- (tisu@midway.uchicago.edu)                       P.O. Box 5975
>"Please to be restful.  It is only a few           Chicago IL 60680
>crazies who have from the crazy place outbroken."    --------------


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