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I've been a big user of WriteNow for some time now, and I love it.
However, it does have one enormous bug which makes it impossible to
do technical paper quality work on the LaserWriter. When I first
got WriteNow, I had assumed that the problem would be fixed with a 
quick update, but it now appears that no such update is coming,
and I'll be abandoning WriteNow soon unless it does.

The problem is this:  Spacing of WriteNow output on the LaserWriter,
particularly for bold fonts, is consistently WRONG.  Some of the time it uses
the correct spacing, and some of the time it doesn't.  It seems not to matter
whether I'm using printer spacing, font substitution, scaling, or anything
else, it is still wrong, and I simply can find no way to produce publication 
quality output with correct spacing.

I'm working on a MacPlus with a Radius FPD, System 3.2, WriteNow 1.0,
LaserWriter 3.1, normally with Geneva on the screen, font substitution to 
Helvetica on, and reduced 12 pt -> 10 pt (i.e. 83%, as suggested by the 
WriteNow manual).  I output via the PostScript file (%F) downloaded to a Sun 
with an LW 2.0 initialized with LaserPrep 3.1.  Yes, I have tried all the 
other combinations, but I still can't force it to space correctly on the LW.

Is this really a bug in WriteNow, or am I doing something completely wrong?
Has it been fixed?  Anyone else notice it?

Jim Cordy
Dept. Computing and Information Science
Queen's University
Kingston, Canada

cordy@qucis.bitnet
cordy%qucis.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu