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Subject: Re: Spacing and PostScript and LaserWriters
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 02:34:49 EDT
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From: ihnp4!utzoo!henry@uw-beaver.arpa

> ... Henry Spencer's
> comment (not quoted exactly but paraphrased from my memory) that "HP
> LaserJet default character widths are all wrong, so I have to place
> each character individually with my software. LaserWriter spacings are
> all wrong and therefore LaserWriters are bad".
> [Brian then points out that LaserWriter software could juggle spacing
> in about the same way.]

Guilty, for the most part, with one small reservation:  from the viewpoint
of someone who merely wants his output typeset, there is a large difference
between "the software could do X" and "the software does do X".

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry