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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word 3.01 font funnies: is there a fix?
Message-ID: <4839@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 18 May 88 05:21:38 GMT
References: <393@kosman.UUCP>
Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <393@kosman.UUCP> kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:
|...
|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.
|
|Is this really a Word bug, or something else?  Is there a fix?

Actually, this is a problem with the BostonII and Venice fonts.  It seems
that many of the older fonts were not created correctly.  More specifically,
in many such fonts the fractional spacing information contain garbage.

You'll get similar results on screen if you tried to use BostonII/Venice on
more modern programs which use fractional information for truer WYSIWYG
displays.  These programs include PageMaker 3.0, Xpress, and FullWrite.  In
fact, if you try to install PageMaker 3.0, it'll warn you about bad fonts.

Now, the big question is, how do you go about fixing the bogus fractional
width information?

Christopher Chow
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