SEK@PSUVM.psu.edu (Sonja Kueppers) (01/21/90)
Last month I posted an article similar to this, and received exactly one response, which wasn't helpful. I thought that perhaps I would get a better response this month, now that school is in session and everyone isn't on vacation. I have noticed that MS Word 4 and Ready, Set, Go! 4.0 do not correctly print boldface laser fonts on the imagewriter, while MacWrite II does. The problem is that the fonts are not expanded to allow for the additional width of boldface, so the characters overlap. We are using system 6.0.3 and whatever appletalk imagewriter driver came with that. We aren't running ATM, and we're using plain finder. (just in case anyone wants to know) What is the difference in the way these software packages handle imagewriter printing? (by the way, the problem occurred with all laser fonts we tried, like Palatino, Bookman, and so on.) -Sonja ------- -----------------------------Sonja Kueppers------------------------------- |SEK@PSUVM (bitnet) | "Argue for your limitations and | |SEK@PSUVM.psu.edu | sure enough, they're yours." | |SEK%PSUVM@psuvax1.uucp | -Richard Bach | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET (Christopher Tate) (01/23/90)
A clarification of Sonja's post about problems printing laser fonts on the ImageWriter II: In article <90020.204427SEK@PSUVM.BITNET>, Sonja Kueppers <SEK@PSUVM.psu.edu> says: > [...] (by the way, the problem occurred with all laser >fonts we tried, like Palatino, Bookman, and so on.) >-Sonja The problem occurred with laser fonts that do not have standard bitmap font equivalents. Thus, Palatino and Avant Garde both overlap boldfaced letters (Avant Garde particularly badly), but Helvetica does not. Presumably this is because the screen (bitmap) font rendering of Helvetica is designed to expand in width when the Boldface attribute is applied. ------- Christopher Tate | "Voices leaking from a sad cafe.... | Smiling faces try to understand. cxt105@psuvm.psu.edu | I saw a shadow touch a shadow's hand {...}!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!cxt105 | On Bleeker Street." cxt105@psuvm.bitnet | -- Simon & Garfunkle