rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes) (05/23/91)
I've just started using System 7.0 and TrueType; I have Word 4.00 (4.00A? Not sure). I made a document consisting of the sentence This is plain text, and this is bold, and this is italic, and this is bold italic where "bold" was in bold, "italic" was in italic, and "bold italic" was in bold italic; the whole sentence was in Times font, and there were copies of the sentence in each of the 6 sizes shown in the font size list (uh, 9, 10, 12, 14, 18, 20, 24? Something like that). It looked more or less OK on screen. When printed on the Imagewriter II in Best mode, the letters looked quite good, but the word spacing was weird. Particlarly, for 5 of the 6 sizes, there was too much space in "bold italic" while for one of the sizes (12 point, I think) there was almost none: "bolditalic". There were other spacing problems but this was the most obvious. Any suggestions? Email reply preferred; I really will summarize. Thanks. -- - Rich Holmes rich@suhep.bitnet or rich@suhep.phy.syr.edu Syracuse U. Physics Dept. or if you must: rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu The Kuwaitis have oil. The Kurds don't. End of story.
long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) (05/24/91)
In article <1991May23.151456.12297@rodan.acs.syr.edu>, rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes) writes... >It looked more or less OK on screen. When printed on the Imagewriter II in >Best mode, the letters looked quite good, but the word spacing was weird. Word 4 does not allow "fractional widths" on the Imagewriter, which is what is needed with Truetype to get good letter spacing. There have been several "steath upgrades" to Word--if you call Microsoft, they will allegedly send you the fix free of charge. I think the rev. is up to around 4.0h now. There is also a patch floating around the net that will enable fractional widths in Word. Note that in 4.0 (?) you can turn on fractional widths via the menu, but it will not take effect when printing! Richard C. Long | long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com | Selfware: If you like --------------- | ...!decwrl!mcntsh.enet.dec.com!long | this program, send A First Edition | long%mcntsh.dec@decwrl.enet.dec.com | yourself five bucks!
long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) (05/24/91)
In article <4954@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, I said... > There is also a patch floating around the net that will enable fractional > widths in Word. Note that in 4.0 (?) you can turn on fractional widths via > the menu, but it will not take effect when printing! Of course, I meant it will not take effect on the Imagewriter! Sorry. Richard C. Long | long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com | Selfware: If you like --------------- | ...!decwrl!mcntsh.enet.dec.com!long | this program, send A First Edition | long%mcntsh.dec@decwrl.enet.dec.com | yourself five bucks!