Re: MacDraw Pro text handling BUG [True Type Bug?]

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From: Eric Shank
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1991 15:33

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In <1991Sep18.032306.19982@trl.oz.au> ssuther@brahma.trl.OZ.AU (S. Sutherland) writes:

>MacDraw Pro has a serious problem with TrueType, I think.  If any
>Helvetica Bold+Italic text is present in a drawing, many or all of the
>occurances of Helvetica plain text objects in the same drawing will have
>their character spacing seriously screwed up.  By 'screwed up' I mean
>that some characters print almost on top of others, while words sometimes
>appear to have spaces in them.  There is no visible effect on the
>screen, only when printing.

>This occurs with or without the Fractional widths and Kern pairs options
>on or off, but disappears if the TrueType Helvetica fonts are removed
>from the System (leaving the Helvetica bit maps behind).  The problem
>does not occur when running 6.07 (no TrueType).

>So much for the sticker on the outside of the MacDraw Pro box that
>proclaimed 'System 7 compatable'!


I experienced this same problem with Power Point version 2.01D- I did
not investigate it at the time... perhaps this is a generic conflict
between True Type and something else?

Eric

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