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From: lupin3@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Borland's Sprint
Keywords: cheap, powerful, way cool
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Date: 29 Jul 88 07:18:26 GMT
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+-In article <11678@steinmetz.ge.com>, davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) wrote:-
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| My big question about Sprint: I have a lot of time invested in font
| descriptor tables for proportional fonts. I generated these by sitting
| and measuring how wide each character is, to the nearest unit of measure
| (which I forget). This takes a *LOT* of time, and I'll use my old
| obsolete Final Word II for a long time before I do it again.
| 
| Please say that I can move my tables.
| -- 
| 	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
|   {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
| "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
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  You can move your tables.  BUT: why did you go to all that trouble in the
first place?  They should have already had font width tables for all the
standard printers and their standard (and even optional) fonts, and even if
not--you should have found a way to automate it.
  For instance, I remember seeing a utility somewhere (I believe it was thrown
in with Final Word 2.20) for Postscript printers that would generate the font
width tables _for_ you.  You'd just edit it to tell it the name of the font,
and the size (this was Final Word II, without scalable fonts) and you ship it
out to the printer, and capture what it sent back, and presto! you had font
width tables.

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