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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
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- Subject: Re: Final Writer Screen Fonts
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 23:59:02 GMT
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- Anita O Bendickson (bendi002@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
- : Does anyone else using Final Writer find that the screen fonts are
- : terrible? I am using the Compugraphic fonts that came with Workbench,
- : but now I am considering getting a Postscript printer. The main thing
- : holding me back is the thought of having to use the screen fonts included
- : with Final Writer.
- :
- : Any suggestions? : -Joe
- :
- Final Writer does not use screen fonts. That is at least part of
- the reason why the text in a FW document often looks bad on the screen.
- The fonts supplied with the program should look fine when rendered by a
- good printer. They look fine coming out of a 24-pin dot matrix at 180x180
- resolution. Go to 300x300 (most cheap lasers) or 600x600 and the quality
- can only improve - these are not bit-mapped fonts. Want a hint as to how
- smooth they would be if magnified? Type a test letter with the size set
- at 70-point. That is what a magnified 10-point character will look like
- when printer on a 600x600 dpi printer. You can actually get a dozen or
- more characters across the screen at that size. The look of the screen
- only approximates the printed output, the printer does not key off the
- screen.
- If you are put off because you can't stand looking at the screen
- with those nasty-looking letters, there is no solution. Sorry.
-