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Article #459Re: Bigger Text in ClarisWorks
From: Christopher Davis
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:31
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:31
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PM> == marxhausen paul <mpaul@unlinfo.unl.edu>
PM> The font characters printed out from CW are actually a bit wider
PM> than when printed from Word.
Could be Word's "Fractional Widths", where it takes advantage of the
fact that in a particular font the letter "e" might really be 3.5 points
wide, and actually doesn't round up to 4 (like ClarisWorks probably
does). This is actually something MS kind of did right (of course, it
would have been nice if it had worked on all printers from the start;
they didn't expect ATM, so they originally disabled this feature on
ImageWriters...)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!iWarp.intel.com|eff!ckd From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) Subject: Re: Bigger Text in ClarisWorks In-Reply-To: mpaul@unlinfo.unl.edu's message of 22 Jul 92 13:01:37 GMT Message-ID: <CKD.92Jul22112850@loiosh.eff.org> Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster) Nntp-Posting-Host: loiosh.eff.org Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central References: <1992Jul22.130137.28781@unlinfo.unl.edu> Distribution: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac,unl.general Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:31:02 GMT Lines: 17