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Article #9792Re: Typewriter Emulation Software for the Mac?
From: Joel B Levin
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1990 14:51
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1990 14:51
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In article <25b3ec78.6cbb@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> rcfische@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Raymond C. Fischer) writes:
|I don't beleive this is possible. Not that the software would be especially
|difficult to write; it probably would take only a day or two. The problem
|is that the ImageWriter (like most dot-matrix printers) does not print
|characters one at a time. It collects an entire line of text then prints
|it all at once. Thus, characters are a uniform size and evenly spaced.
This is all true, except that the ImageWriters (maybe just the II?) do
have a built in proportional font (not evenly spaced horizontally). A
corresponding screen font is available with the shareware DA miniWRITER.
/JBL
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