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From: dmw3@ur-tut.UUCP (David Walsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Funny Spacing in WriteNow
Message-ID: <322@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 16:03:50 EST
Article-I.D.: ur-tut.322
Posted: Sun Oct 25 16:03:50 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Oct-87 04:28:01 EST
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Reply-To: dmw3@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (David Walsh)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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Keywords: WriteNow, bugs


  There are some very common mistakes that people make when using a Laser
Writer.  Mainly they use the space bar so that what they see in their word
processor lines up from line to line.  If you are doing this and expect to
get your output to match you are in for a big surprise.  The LaserWriter
doesn't like that stuff, it seems to fiddle with the spacing itself which is
fine unless you want columns to line up.  The solution is to use tab stops.
The LaserWriter treats tab stops as the holiest of holies, and will preserve
column integrity if they are tabbed.

  Another common problem, but it is not the fault of the user is that if
you are using a non-LaserWriter font and some of the words get chopped off
at the margin the font is corrupted.  All you have to do to fix it is take
the latest version of Font/DA Mover (I think 3.2 will do though) and re-
install the font.  It should print normally.  If it doesn't then you have
a bad font and shouldn't use that one.  Note that this also will sometimes
happen on an ImageWriter as well.  The fix is identical.

  Hope that this clears up the problem for all of you LaserWriter fans.
Good luck and may your disks never crash.

Dave Walsh - hiding at the UofR  try: rochester!ur-tut!dmw3

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