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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: TrueType Laser Printing?
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.174358.30615@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 17:43:58 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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Just for fun, I tried printing two pages of an old MS-Word document
with uploaded truetype times fonts on our apple laserwriter IINT.  The
results were disappointing.

* Some of the fonts (probably apple symbol font) actually have square
boxes in them for certain space characters.  This makes programs like
MS-Word print a bunch of boxes in the formulae with spaces.  This
ruins the equations. 

* The ms-word rendering of a large "{" is very screwed up -- it looks
like the two long vertical strokes almost connect right behind the
spike in the middle of the bracket.

* The Times-Roman fond is quite dark, more like Times-Bold.  It is
much darker than any Adobe times font I have ever seen.  The italic
font is very light colored -- more like times should be, in my
opinion.  I checked the 700K postscript file, and there was no mention
of a times bold font.  I rechecked the MS-Word file -- there are no
bold characters in this font.  I cannot understand why the fonts are
so dark in 12-point type.


Has anyone else encountered this with the new TrueType font system?


Don Gillies	     |  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
gillies@cs.uiuc.edu  |  Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL

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