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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Word 3.01 font funnies: is there a fix?
Message-ID: <393@kosman.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 88 11:27:55 GMT
Organization: K.O.'s Manor - Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA 93035
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I have been making up some "font sample" documents in Word, and ran into
some real oddities with the BostonII and Venice fonts.  I was doing this
in order to figure out which fonts I want to keep around, since I just
got a whole big bunch of PD and shareware fonts, and I like to keep
my font setup fairly sane, but reasonably full.

Anyway, I found that BostonII seemed okay until it printed (on a LaserWriter
Plus, as it happens), at which time the bold and bold-italic versions got
screwy, all smushed together as if the printer were spacing over just a
point or so after printing each one.

On the other hand, venice seemed okay until I loaded up some larger point
sizes of the font.  Suddenly I could get only a couple of characters on a
line, as if it was counting each character as if it were many picas wide,
although the actual spacing as printed was okay.

I remade the document in MacWrite, which I don't use much but have around
from the old days when it was bundled with this beast.  All the funny
behaviour went away.

Is this really a Word bug, or something else?  Is there a fix?