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In article <30D6DCE8.41C6@d0ibm3.fnal.gov>, "Adam L. Lyon" <lyon@d0ibm3.fnal.gov> writes:

|> 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).  


Hi

well, that seems to be a different problem than I have. As Nick Ward suggested I
switched on fractional width and the printout seems to be alright.

   Axel Kowald