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From: eberard@com (Edward V. Berard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Help: How Do I Get Rid of "Extra Width For Bold" In System 7?
Summary: I cannot seem to fix the problem the same way I did with earlier systems
Message-ID: <0B02FFFA.h22ykb@bse.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 17:20:10 GMT
Reply-To: eberard@com (Edward V. Berard)
Organization: Berard Software Engineering, Inc.
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Folks,

I very seldom want the bold styles for fonts to take up extra width. In the
past (i.e., with pre-System 7 systems), I could eliminate the "extra width"
for the Times and Helvetica fonts by using Resedit to alter the FOND resource
in the system. Specifically, I just opened the FOND resource, selected the
appropriate font (Times or Helvetica), scrolled to the "Extra Width for Bold"
box, and set the value to all zeros. Then, when I used an application like
MS Word, and set a piece of text to bold, the width of the text would not
increase -- either on the screen or in hard copy.

This solution no longer seems to work with my copy of System 7. Does anybody
have an idea of how I can solve my problem?

Potentially useful information: I have removed all of the bitmapped fonts
for Times and Helvetica, and only have the TrueType fonts installed for these
fonts. I am running on a Mac IIfx with 8 megs of RAM, and 160 megs of hard
disk.

Thanks.

				-- Ed


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