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- From: mpaul@unlinfo.unl.edu (marxhausen paul)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Bigger Text in ClarisWorks
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.130137.28781@unlinfo.unl.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 13:01:37 GMT
- Distribution: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac,unl.general
- Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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- I broke down and bought ClarisWorks on the recommendation of several net-
- readers (one of whom sold me his new copy at a discount!) Anyway, I'm
- still exploring it but there's one thing that puzzled and startled me:
-
- when I brought in some Microsoft Word 3.02 files (CW is pretty good at
- importing and exporting to a lot of different file formats, BTW), it
- seemed to me that with the same margins set, CW was getting fewer words
- on each line. I know the Word's display is not true WYSIWYG (the ruler
- is actually stretched a little), but this effect was noticible in the
- final printout also. I printed a few test documents from both applications,
- some with super-sized type, and discovered that _ the characters were
- actually different widths when printed from the two applications!_
- The font characters printed out from CW are actually a bit wider than
- when printed from Word. This kind of astounded me, I thought all Mac
- apps using the same fonts would pretty much always print the same.
- So . . . does anybody know, does Claris actually use a different print
- driver or something like that? I thought something was fishy when I
- went to print from CW and the print dialog has the "Faster" option
- dimmed - you either print "Best" or "Draft".
-
- I guess this isn't a crime or anything, the print looks fine, I'm just
- curious about this . . .
-
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