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- From: hartigan@flowbee.interaccess.com (Mike Hartigan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Final Writer Screen Fonts
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 01:28:31 GMT
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- David Meyer (dmeyer@tiac.net) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- Actually, there is one pseudo-solution. Go to Display Preferences and
- increase the "Screen DPI" to improve the characters. You'll be doing
- a lot of side-scrolling, but the display is much nicer (and you can
- actually see the difference between "e" and "c"!). Apart from buying a
- gfx board and increasing your resolution (the same way), this is the only
- way that I know of to improve the screen display.
-
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