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From: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Fractional widths confusion
Message-ID: <1991May11.011753.4423@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Date: 11 May 91 01:17:53 GMT
Reply-To: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr)
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Ordinarily I never use Geneva in my documents, but recently I was printing
a long Word 4(A) document for a friend and it was all Geneva. I was printing
on a Personal NT. There were some titles etc. in bold, and I ran into the
old problem of weird character widths (esp. the space). I discovered two
things:

1. Option-space seems to be of constant width, at least in Helvetica.
Replacing spaces with it fixed the problem.

2. Before I thought of 1, however, I naturally tried the "Fractional
widths" in Page Setup. This worked for me before. This time the printout
looked as if it came out of a bitmap! Normally Helvetica is somewhat heavy;
this time all letters had very skinny and rather irregular strokes... BTW,
I did have Font Substitution checked, so no, it wasn't trying to print
Geneva. What gives? Is it a bug in Word? Just curious.      E.
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Eric Behr, Illinois State University, Mathematics Department
Internet: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu    Bitnet: ebehr@ilstu