jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) (12/28/89)
I'm using ATM with WriteNow and an ImageWriter II. You can generally count me
as a very satisfied ATM user. I find it to be nothing short of amazing. But
I find the spacing when there's a transition from italics to plain text to be
just huge. You see it on the screen too. And yes, I do turn on "Use Printer
Spacing" in WriteNow's Page Setup.
Whose fault is this? Can I fix it? Do I have to buy software that will let me
kern?
I'm getting the hankers for the GCC PLP II. To have this problem in otherwise
eyeball-zapping print quality would sure be a shame!
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Jim Rosenberg
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BIX: jrosenberg uunet!cmcl2!cadre! /alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) (01/04/90)
jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes: >I'm using ATM with WriteNow and an ImageWriter II. You can generally count me >as a very satisfied ATM user. I find it to be nothing short of amazing. But >I find the spacing when there's a transition from italics to plain text to be >just huge. You see it on the screen too. And yes, I do turn on "Use Printer >Spacing" in WriteNow's Page Setup. I've forever had this problem in PageFaker 2.0x and 3.0x myself--ATM or no. I always thought it PM's fault. No? Alex
wiseman@tellab5.TELLABS.COM (Jeff Wiseman) (01/05/90)
In article <1990Jan4.100234.28177@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) writes: >jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes: > >>I'm using ATM with WriteNow and an ImageWriter II. You can generally count me >>as a very satisfied ATM user. I find it to be nothing short of amazing. But >>I find the spacing when there's a transition from italics to plain text to be >>just huge. You see it on the screen too. And yes, I do turn on "Use Printer >>Spacing" in WriteNow's Page Setup. > >I've forever had this problem in PageFaker 2.0x and 3.0x myself--ATM or >no. I always thought it PM's fault. No? > This is curious. When you changed your font from an italic to plain style, was it before or after the space? In other words, is there such thing as an italic space? Just wondering. I remember some kind of a problem with MacWriteII (the initial release, I think) where "bold spaces" needed to be changed to "plain spaces" in order for some of the Bold text spacing to look correct. Could this be a similar kind of problem? -- Jeff Wiseman: ....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM