asw@rlvd.UUCP (06/12/86)
Has anyone seen the folowing effect on LaserWriters?
We are using Sun LaserWriters. In a recent document, I noticed
that some characters in Times-Roman (u,v,w,x,y,z) were printing
noticeably smaller than others (e,r,m,n).
I ran some tests (included below), and found that it only
happened on one particular printer, and only at 10pt size.
(This size is the default for troff -ms :-)
Power-cycling the printer fixed the fault, so I surmise
that it was a fault in the cached representation, not in the font
itself. The question is: are laserwriters prone to bit decay?
Tony
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%!PS
% test file for characters printing too small
/tr /Times-Roman findfont def
/inch {72 mul} def
1 inch 9 inch translate
/teststring (wewrwmwn xexrxmxn ueurumun yeyrymyn zezrzmzn uwxyzermn) def
/showit {tr exch scalefont setfont 0 0 moveto teststring show 0 -0.25 inch translate } def
[ 16 15 14 13 12.5 12 11.5 11 10.5 10 9.5 9 8.5 8 7.5 7 6.5 6 ] {showit} forall
showpage
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