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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft Pageview V1.0
Message-ID: <1971@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 88 20:06:15 GMT
References: <1963@optilink.UUCP> <181@spked.UUCP>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> In article <1963@optilink.UUCP>, cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> > We've received our copy of Microsoft Pageview V1.0 -- and it's a little
> > disappointing.
> > 
> > It doesn't actually support all the PostScript fonts -- if you attempt to
> > display a document that uses the Zapf or Symbol font families, you get
> > what looks like Courier on the screen. 
> 
> According to my doc on Word 4.0, Word doesn't support those fonts unless you
> are using a LaserWriter Plus.  Why?  Who knows...  The only PS fonts
> supported for non-LaserWriter Plus printers are Courier, Helvetica, LineDraw,
> Symbol, and TimesRoman.

Word doesn't DISPLAY those other fonts on the screen because they didn't
want to attempt to support them in graphics mode (laziness), and they can't
support them in text mode.

Pageview doesn't have that excuse -- it supports several different fonts,
and can painlessly (once the Windows fonts are built) support lots of
different fonts.

Clayton E. Cramer