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From: tim@int13.hf.intel.com (Timothy E. Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: w4w ... possible to print a text border?
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.160257.14248@int13.hf.intel.com>
Date: 3 Jun 91 16:02:57 GMT
References: <1991Jun1.083225.3591@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <377@dosbears>
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drp@dosbears.UUCP (David R. Preston) writes:
>In article <1991Jun1.083225.3591@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> gg2@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Guy Gallo) writes:
>>On a dot matrix I think (for the time being) you are out of luck if what
>>you need is to print text perpendicular to the orientation (unless you
>>print in two runs).
>This was true until a few weeks ago when Adobe Type Align for Windows
>was released.  Using ATA (which requires ATM), you can create an 
>arbitrary path for your Type 1 font to follow. You can do some
>really weird stuff with skew and curves, and you can print text
>perpendicular to the orientation.  I don't think you can put W4W
>fields on it, but I haven't tried (I've only had it about a day
>and a half).  Various shades of grey can be printed.

But you will only be able to paste the results of TypeAlign into WinWord as
a picture, then scale, clip, and position on the WinWord page.  It would work
but not as easy as you want.  And it will not be editable in WinWord.  Also
note, the Windows MetaFile output from TypeAlign does not work correctly, it
only gives you the outlines of the characters, not the fills.  I have made
two calls to Adobe and have yet to get a call back, time to call in a day or
two and make then get their act together.  So...if you want to use TypeAlign
output in WinWord documents, you must either copy/paste into the document or
save as an EPS file (if you have a postscript printer).

I will admit that I am making use of the WMF bug to create some letters that
will be printed on colored paper and then cut on the lines for putting on a
bulletin board.  Even when the get the WMF output fixed I'll still keep
TypeAlign 2.0 (what happened to 1.0?) around for that ability.

Tim Forsyth

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