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From: kaufman@neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: HelveBol with 6.0.7
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.152841.9553@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 24 Apr 91 15:28:41 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.064517.5667@jyu.fi>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA
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In article <1991Apr24.064517.5667@jyu.fi> saarimak@jyu.fi writes:
-What is the reason for the following printing incorrectness of Helvetica Bold? 
-If I print to laser something _boldtext_ in Helvetica Bold and continue then
-with normaltext, then the end of _boldtext_ is printed on top of the beginning
-of the normaltext.  And if I underline bolded text, then the underline is too
-short (so long as it would be under normal text).  

-My system: Mac II with system 6.0.7 and Laserwriter II NT.
-Other fonts than Helvetica seem to print correctly.
-Interestingly Helvetiva is printed correctly from another Mac II with system
-6.0.5 to the same laser!  

-Someone seems to believe that bolded text is as long as normal text, someone
-not. Whose fault?  Any suggestions to correct? Back to 6.0.5 or is there better
-Helvetica?

Sounds like you just need to reinstall Helvetica.  The LW Driver uses the
width information in the FOND (and FONT/NFNT) to determine how long the text
is -- if it guesses correctly on the other Mac but not on yours, its a good
bet that your Font information is wrong.  Use Font/DA Mover to put a fresh
Helvetica on your system.

There are at least 3 DIFFERENT versions of Helvetica available for the Mac:
The bitmap FONT released with the system, the LW fonts released with the
Laserwriter, and the ATM fonts from Adobe. (and TrueType, if you have it)
This tends to be a mite confusing to the Laserwriter Driver.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)