gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) (06/07/91)
Just for fun, I tried printing two pages of an old MS-Word document
with uploaded truetype times fonts on our apple laserwriter IINT. The
results were disappointing.
* Some of the fonts (probably apple symbol font) actually have square
boxes in them for certain space characters. This makes programs like
MS-Word print a bunch of boxes in the formulae with spaces. This
ruins the equations.
* The ms-word rendering of a large "{" is very screwed up -- it looks
like the two long vertical strokes almost connect right behind the
spike in the middle of the bracket.
* The Times-Roman fond is quite dark, more like Times-Bold. It is
much darker than any Adobe times font I have ever seen. The italic
font is very light colored -- more like times should be, in my
opinion. I checked the 700K postscript file, and there was no mention
of a times bold font. I rechecked the MS-Word file -- there are no
bold characters in this font. I cannot understand why the fonts are
so dark in 12-point type.
Has anyone else encountered this with the new TrueType font system?
Don Gillies | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
gillies@cs.uiuc.edu | Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL
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