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Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 16:05:50 EDT
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I have a Canon LBP-A1 with a Swiss (aka Helvetica) font cartridge hooked to an
Olivetti M24 (IBM-PC compatible) running Microsoft Word.

The first thing I noticed is that fonts larger than 10 point aren't available;
the second thing was that the speed decreased drastically with the font
cartridge installed (it's not half as bad with the Garland [= Times Roman]
cartridge).

So far I haven't succeeded in writing a Word printer description file that will
produce a printout with a neat right margin. Fiddling with the character width
table and the microspace flag didn't help.

Has anybody written a working printer description file, do recent Word releases
come with a Swiss font description, or can anybody give me general hints how to
convert a specification in the style of the Canon manual into a working printer
description? Why does the Garland font cartridge work without problems?

Thanks a lot in advance, and please reply > directly < to
"schulz@germany.csnet".