amtaylor@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andrew M. Taylor) (06/04/91)
Hi everyone, I am creating a standard form for offices in three different cities using Microsoft Excel, hopefully Version 3.0 (when everyone upgrades). There are a number of different printers used: Epson dot matrix, IBM 4019E, H-P Desjet 500, H-P LaserJet IIP. These are basically stock machines with very few extra fonts installed. I wanted to pick a font that seemed appropriate for the document that would look somewhat similar on all of the different printers used, and the Roman fonts seemed to fit the bill (haven't tried w/ Epson yet). Here is the problem: There does not seem to be an appropriate screen font (I'm a little new at this, so bear with me!) to display my work on the screen when i use Roman fonts. In Excel 2.1d, the font display is very fuzzy and ridiculously slow. In Excel 3.0, the screen font is HUGE -- only about 3 cells across can be displayed -- not exactly convenient for editing. I'm sure there must be a relatively simple way to solve this, but how? Will it cost much money, if any? My general manager is just getting turned on to my idea, but he is as yet reluctant to spend money (everybody's problem, right?). At least for my own personal use in the interim, are there shareware options? Thank you, thank you, thank you, Andrew Taylor Bloomington, IN
ted@gdfwc3 (Ted Barker) (06/08/91)
In article <1991Jun4.003258.17398@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> amtaylor@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andrew M. Taylor) writes: | There are a number of different printers used: Epson dot matrix, IBM | 4019E, H-P Desjet 500, H-P LaserJet IIP. These are basically stock | machines with very few extra fonts installed. I wanted to pick a font | that seemed appropriate for the document that would look somewhat | similar on all of the different printers used, and the Roman fonts | seemed to fit the bill (haven't tried w/ Epson yet). Here is the | problem: There does not seem to be an appropriate screen font (I'm a | little new at this, so bear with me!) to display my work on the screen | when i use Roman fonts. In Excel 2.1d, the font display is very fuzzy | and ridiculously slow. In Excel 3.0, the screen font is HUGE -- only | about 3 cells across can be displayed -- not exactly convenient for | editing. I'm sure there must be a relatively simple way to solve | this, but how? Will it cost much money, if any? My general manager | is just getting turned on to my idea, but he is as yet reluctant to | spend money (everybody's problem, right?). At least for my own | personal use in the interim, are there shareware options? Have you thought of Bitstream's Facelift for Windows or Adobe Type Manager for Windows? They are both quite fast and will print basically the same on all of the described printers, and will provide virtually-WYSIWYG screen. The cost is arguably nominal at approx. $60 from the likes of CompUSA. Facelift has received many good reviews as has ATM, but there are a lot of free/shareware fonts out there (cica.indiana.edu) for ATM. As far as I know there is nothing like that for Facelift. BTW, if anyone knows of any Facelift fonts out there I would appreciate hearing about them (email or post). ted _______________________________________________________________________________ Ted Barker tbarker@ee.uta.edu uunet!texsun!gdfwc3!ted What IS the standard disclaimer? gdfwc3!ted@central.sun.com If it exists, is it ANSI? CCIT? IEEE? MIL? ABA?? _______________________________________________________________________________ -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Ted Barker tbarker@ee.uta.edu uunet!texsun!gdfwc3!ted What IS the standard disclaimer? gdfwc3!ted@central.sun.com If it exists, is it ANSI? CCIT? IEEE? MIL? ABA?? _______________________________________________________________________________