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From: briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word 3.01 and fonts
Message-ID: <2019@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 18:07:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 18:07:09 1987
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Reply-To: briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: font word 3.01

>>> <(My wife wanted New York 96...
>>> I had to build the font for her, even.)

>> How did you "build" it?  Is that from Word?  Or from another program?

>Another program: Fontastic.  (Fontastic+ is better, but I
>haven't allocated the funds yet to get it.)

I have had trouble with the combination of Fontastic Plus, Word 3.01, and a
LaserWriter Plus.

I created a font in 72 point size.  I used it with MacWrite, where the
characters appeared correctly on the screen, the ImageWriter, and the Laser
Writer.  I then used it with Word 3.01, where the characters appeared correctly
on the screen, the ImageWriter, but not on the LW; here they all had zero
width, meaning each character appeared at the left margin!

I tried it without the set FOND widths, by removing the FOND resource and installing it into a new system.  This provides a default FOND set of widths.  It worked on the LW, but the default widths were all wrong and it acted terrible on the screen.

I eventually gave it up.  Maybe this is a bug in Fontastic Plus; it was always
a buggy package in all its incarnations.  Anybody else have any ideas?


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-Brian Diehm     (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply)
Tektronix, Inc.
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