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From: benoitm@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Benoit Menendez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet Font Downlaods
Message-ID: <910007@hpmwbam.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 89 18:28:10 GMT
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Organization: HP Microwave Tech. - Santa Rosa, Ca.
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> I don't think that this is much of a problem. The inability to do automatic
> kerning by storing negative paddings in the character descriptor is more of a
> problem. This makes italic or large soft fonts look bad unless your word
> processor can compensate for this restriction.

Let me add that I dont know of any (non-laser) printer providing kerning
information in the soft font data.

I really think that the DeskJet is the best (non-laser) printer.

	Benoit.