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Re: Still more Word 3.0 bugs

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From: dgold
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1987 21:57
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In article <536@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> beloin@batcomputer.UUCP (Ron Beloin) writes:
>BTW, can anyone explain why the ruler shrinks when laserprinter
>is selected? Your text is re-wrapped to fit the smaller size, but
>I thought laser fonts took up *less* room than their bit counterparts,
>so there would be more words per line and so the ruler should stretch
>if anything. Anyway, I find it confusing.
The ImageWriter (unless Tall Adjusted is selected) prints at 80 dpi
horizontally; the LaserWriter is always 72 dpi horizontally.  The ruler
adjusts to show you the actual amount on the page that your text takes up.
This was in Word 1.05, and is also in WriteNow.
-- 
David Goldsmith
Apple Computer, Inc.
MacApp Group

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Subject: Re: Still more Word 3.0 bugs
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Date: Sat, 28-Mar-87 16:57:43 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 28 16:57:43 1987
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Keywords: MS Word superscript subscript line spacing