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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: HPDeskWriter <--> Font problems
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.145523.25298@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 14:55:23 GMT
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In article <7513@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> bourgeoi@ireq.hydro.qc.ca writes:

>with Apple TrueType, and Adobe Type Manager. The printer print effectively the
>capital letters with accent but those letters are always a bit smaller than the
>other capital letters of the same size (like what we see on the screen).The HP
>high quality fonts,included with the printer, resolves this problem for
>standard fonts ( Courier, helvetica, Times, symbol) but the problem is unsolved
>for all special fonts available in ATM. If I use a postscript printer the
>output is perfect for any size of standard or exotic fonts...
>
>Where is the problem: with the printer driver, in the screen font data, in the
>mathematical outline font description...

Believe it or not, there is actually a system call to fix this problem for
TrueType fonts.  I suspect that the printer driver needs to make this call.
I can't speak for ATM.
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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