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Re: Let's get System 7.x on top!
On 22 Apr 1996, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
> Hyung-song Nam> Well, that's useless if the .PS file generated by
> Hyung-song Nam> executor is incorrect. Try printing any font
> Hyung-song Nam> above 20pt in MS Word 5.1a. Only the first letter
> Hyung-song Nam> shows up. I don't know if it works for you, but it
> Hyung-song Nam> doesn't for me.
>
> That's a bug we should be able to fix before Executor 2 is released.
Cool!
> We have fixed a few of the easier to fix printing problems already (we
> no longer put spaces in our translated font names so it is possible to
> map them) and we'll try to fix a few more easily fixed things like the
> problem with fonts > 20pt you mention above, but other printing fixes
> will require better interaction with the native printing capabilities
> presented by different OSes which means that it makes more sense for
> us to improve the printing subsystem after we've cleaned up our code
> to better isolate OS dependent things.
I see. I did find a way to remap fonts in ghostscripts with spaces in the
font name, but it would definitely be better without the spaces in the
name. Instead of '/' before the font name, use '(' and ')' around the
font name.
Apologies for somewhat long quoting...
-Hyung-song Nam
hn16@cornell.edu
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