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From: tj@utgpu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: WordPerfect and Apple LaserWriter
Message-ID: <1987Sep11.105703.3982@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 10:57:03 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 11 10:57:03 1987
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Reply-To: tj@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Terry Jones)
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Exactly my point.... You have a printer far less capable than a PostScript
printer and it does some things better with WordPerfect than a PostScript
printer does with WordPerfect. This of course means we should all scrap
capable printers and buy brain dead printers so that they aren't too smart
that they make the software developers at WordPerfect look bad.

Curious questions...

Can you use the BOLD functions on the Times, Helvetica and Times Italic
and get REAL bold Times and REAL bold Helvetica and REAL bold Times Italic?
Or do they give you shadow print bold or something crude???

The LaserWriter is capable of ANY size of Times, Helvetica or Courier (the
LaserWriter Plus has like 13 more FAMILIES) and there is a true Bold and 
Italic for all of them. WordPerfect only lets you use 3 sizes of them.

Now, if your printer allowed you to switch into a smaller font, try a
paragraph in the smaller font and see what your margins and/or spacing do.
With margins set in characters, if you change the character size, the margins
change. I want to be able to set the margins in inches or picas or centimetres
and have WordPerfect figure out the number of character positions it should
use AND i want it to be able to use fractional characters. Otherwise if I mix
a 13 pitch and an 8 pitch font on the same page, with integer character margins
and a 1 inch margin, the margins CANNOT POSSIBLY EVER match due to the lack
of an integer common denominator near 1 inch. 

Software is supposed to make things easier... 

tj