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From: CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Some TrueType problems
Message-ID: <91123.113105CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 3 May 91 15:31:05 GMT
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In article <91123.110716CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu>, Christopher Tate
(that's me) says:

>*NONE* of the TrueType fonts available from the anonymous ftp archive at
>mac.archive.umich.edu seem to work properly.  Specifically, when printing
>on a Personal LaserWriter LS from MS Word 4.0, the line breaking "breaks,"
>and causes lines to be broken at a length of about an inch and a half
>(rather than the actual margin-determined length of 6").  This occurs at
>any point size that I've tried.

I tried the same thing in MacWrite II, and it worked properly.  It looks
like Microsoft Word 4.0d (or whatever the latest version is; I know that
we're using it, but I don't recall which letter it is) doesn't work
properly with TrueType fonts.

>Apple's TrueType versions of Times and Helvetica don't exhibit this
>behavior, so I assume it's a flaw in the Type1 --> TrueType conversion
>of these publicly distributable fonts.  Someone mentioned that FontMonger
>version 1.0 had problems; perhaps this is an exhibition of further bugs
>in that program (many of these fonts were converted by Dave Platt, using
>FontMonger 1.0).  I've already sent Mr. Platt mail about the problem.

Although what I said here isn't true (MacWrite II handles the fonts
correctly, so Word obviously has problems), it would appear that there is
some fundamental difference between the Apple TrueType fonts and these
user-generated fonts.

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