From: Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Charlie Mingo)
Sender: Uucp@p0.f40.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!blkcat!Uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Fractional widths confusion
Message-ID: <674046650.2@blkcat.FidoNet>
Date: 11 May 91 17:31:50 EST

ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr) writes:

EB>Ordinarily I never use Geneva in my documents, but recently I was
EB>printing a long Word 4(A) document for a friend and it was all 
EB>Geneva. I was printing on a Personal NT. There were some titles 
EB>etc. in bold, and I ran into the old problem of weird character 
EB>widths (esp. the space). 

EB>I did have Font Substitution checked, so no, it wasn't trying to
EB>print Geneva. What gives? Is it a bug in Word? 

     Since Geneva and Helvetica have different spacings, it's not suprising
you obtained wierd spacing by using Font Substitution:  the document is
being formatted in one font, and printed in another.

     Font Substitution was only intended to be a kludge.  If you want nice-
looking results, use the correct font to begin with.  (If the document was
"all" Geneva, than it's pretty easy to convert it to all Helvetica, no?)


 * Origin: mingo@well.sf.ca.us  mingo@cup.portal.com (1:109/421.4218)