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Article #1189Re: Tons 'O questions about fonts/printer drivers, etc...
From: Jon Deutsch
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 04:18
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 04:18
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In article <Bt3q8r.1Fw@news.udel.edu> jon@chopin.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch) writes:
|>OK, I'm a new PC user, and I just got MS Word for Win 2.0.
|>I also have an NEC P5200 24pin dot matrix printer.
|>
|>I am a *tad* confused about screen fonts, printer fonts, and truetype
|>fonts.
|>
|>What seems to be happening is this:
|>Any truetype font (ie: Courier New) that my printer has a built-in font
|>for (ie: NEC Courier), gets automatically made into a printer font.
|>In other words, I am unable to print out any truetype fonts that my
|>printer has similar built-in fonts for!
|>
Well, upon further investigation, this is not true.
What is really happening is that with a few truetype fonts
(ie: Arial, Times New Roman), I get bitmapped fonts to my printer
(ie: ugly). Why is this? Other truetypes like Wingdings work
just fine with my printer!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!news.udel.edu!chopin.udel.edu!jon From: jon@chopin.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Tons 'O questions about fonts/printer drivers, etc... Message-ID: <Bt41Bn.2AK@news.udel.edu> Date: 17 Aug 92 04:18:58 GMT References: <Bt3q8r.1Fw@news.udel.edu> Sender: usenet@news.udel.edu Organization: University of Delaware - What state is that in? Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: chopin.udel.edu