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From: scott@spectra.COM (Tim Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HP DeskWriter
Message-ID: <301@spectra.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 90 22:38:51 GMT
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Reply-To: scott@spectra (Tim Scott)
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1. Re the guy's suggestion to use a fixative on DeskWriter output:
great idea! I'll try it and report if no one else has by the time I
can get arond to it.

2. On another tack...I also love (froth, rant, foam) the DW. HOWEVER
I have quasi serious objections to the way it behaves with Word 3.01.
It seems to do wierd stuff with spacing, particularly if bold style is
selected.

The behavior is like this:

Here's   a   bold   line

that is, the letter spacing is way too wide.

But worse than that, I get very inconsistent word spacing even with regular
text: It seems to only happen with the Times font:

A line of text in, say, 10 pt Times
A line  of  text  in,  say,  10 pt  Times

Courier doesn't seem to be a problem, that is, it is always monospaced.

I never have these problems in PageMaker 3.0; in fact, I have to 
import Word files into pagemaker to get clean output.

Why is this happening? Help!!

P.S.: Mac SE/1 MB/6.0.2
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