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Axel Kowald wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I noticed a strange behaviour of my Word 6.0.1 and I wondered if anyone else
> noticed it.   When I use justified text (that means the text being left and right
> aligned) everything is fine on the screen, but when printed the letters of the
> last word in each line are spaced much wider than in the other words. This
> phenomenon is very easy to spot if you have the word "the" in the middle of the
> line and as the last word of the line.
> 
>
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Hi,

I too have seen similar behavior in a Word 6.0.1 document of mine.  I have only seen it
so far if I write a justified paragraph in the italic Century Schoolbook font.
Everything looks fine on the screen and the print preview, but when actually printed, I
get large gaps of whitespace in the paragraph.  If I print to a file and view the
postscript with the Ghostscript previewer, I see the gaps there too - so the problem is
in the postscript.  Turning on fractional widths helps only a little: the ugly gaps
aren't quite as large, but still very ugly.  A friend told me that he sees this problem
in his Word v6 for Windows as well.  He gets around it by telling the windows printer
driver to always download all fonts, regardless if they are standard in the printer.
Apparently, he believes the problem is that the font built into the printer does not
exactly match the true-type font Word is using, and thus the spacing gets confused.
Ghostscript also has its own font library, and it's interesting that what it displays
EXACTLY matches what the printer does (ie. puts in the same size gaps).  

I don't know how to force downloading of fonts to the printer if they are standard built
in ones.  Does anyone know how to do that on a Mac?  This problem makes documents that
should look really nice unacceptable.  Has anyone else found a solution?

Thanks for any info.

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