ddl683@sarah.albany.edu (Cinderella Man) (05/24/91)
Our user rooms machines are SEs with 40MB hard drives and 1MB of RAM. We have 4MB RAM upgrades on order, but knowing state purchase orders, I don't expect them anytime soon. So for now, we're running System 6.0.7 on them. Last week I installed TrueType. MS Word apparantly hates it. The characters scale correctly, but the lines break at the wrong places, rendering them unusable. When there's a bitmapped version of the font/size installed, things work fine: the bitmap is used for the screen, and the new ImageWriter driver prints things smoothly. I've gone ahead and installed all the standard bitmap sizes available for Times, Helvetica, Symbol and Courier, but if anyone tries to use a size greater than 24, they're hosed. Anyone have some suggestions? I can't wait until we get the extra RAM so I can install System 7, but until then we're stuck with 6.0.x. I could always remove TrueType, but then people would have much worse-looking ImageWriter printouts (and TT does work right with other programs). I'd love to tell everyone not to use Word :-), but I can't do that either. (And you know, I was just down in the user room typing up a sign to the effect of "Don't use these fonts at sizes larger than 24pt" when Word crashed on me. Sigh.) thanks y'all, Derek L. -- + + "When nothing else remains, one must scream. Silence is the ultimate + + + crime against humanity." -- Nadezhda Mandelstam + + _______________ [ ACME DISCLAIMER CO. PART NO. 2830-1512 ] _______________ + + "I'm going back to knitting. Fetch me the damned knitting needles." <<-Sho +