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From: Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f421.n109.z0.FidoNet.Org (Charlie Mingo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: HPDeskWriter <--> Font problems
Message-ID: <677390460.4@blkcat.FidoNet>
Date: 20 Jun 91 00:52:35 GMT
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russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:

MT> In article <7513@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> bourgeoi@ireq.hydro.qc.ca writes:
    [...]
MT> Believe it or not, there is actually a system call to fix this problem for
MT> TrueType fonts.  I suspect that the printer driver needs to make this
MT> call.
MT> I can't speak for ATM.

    The original poster was referring to differences between Adobe Type 1
and DeskWriter-supplied fonts.

    Adobe fonts do not behave consistantly with respect to this attribute: 

Helvetica, Times and Courier scale accented caps, so the total character height
is the same as an unaccented cap.

Palatino, New Century Schoolbook, Avant Gaurde, Zapf Chancery, ITC Bookman,
Helvetica Narrow and Stempel Schneidler do not scale accented caps, so 
the capital letter alone is the same height as an normal cap.

   There does not appear to be any rational explanation of why there are
different formulas applied to Helvetica and Helvetica Narrow.


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