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From: ebert@arisia.Xerox.COM (Robert Ebert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Deskwriter & ATM
Summary: MSWord--turn on fractional widths
Keywords: ATM, Word
Message-ID: <6958@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 6 Mar 90 23:22:50 GMT
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Reply-To: ebert@arisia.UUCP (Bob Ebert)
Organization: Xerox Sunnyvale System Software Unit
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In article <21383@netnews.upenn.edu> pay@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Geoffrey A. Pay) writes:
>I read a while back about a patch to Adobe Type Manager that improves its print
>with MS Word 4.0.  It has something to do with fractional widths.  Can anyone
>tell me where I get a copy of this patch thru ftp?  It doesn't seem to be on
>sumex or simtel.  Thanks in advance.

There is no patch.  If it looks like your document is kerned all wrong when
using MSWord on the DeskWriter, you need to turn on Fractional Widths.  It's
in the Page Setup dialog for MSWord.  (While you're there, check the default 
box so you don't have to turn it on every time...)  (Alternately, you could
be trying to use a bitmap font with bad fractional widths information... like
my favorite bitmap font Madison, which no one seems to be able to repair... wah)

This is probably documented in the MSWord manual and/or online help...  I didn't
look, but it's obvious you didn't either.

The 'patch' you may be referring to is to allow MSWord to turn on Fractional
Widths when printing to the Imagewriter.  (Normally, Word disallows this...)
This can improve to look of large text printed with ATM to the ImageWriter.
DeskWriter owners don't need this patch, since MicroSoft didn't try to prevent
us from using Fractional widths.

			--Bob