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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Bigger Text in ClarisWorks
- In-Reply-To: mpaul@unlinfo.unl.edu's message of 22 Jul 92 13:01:37 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:31:02 GMT
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- PM> == marxhausen paul <mpaul@unlinfo.unl.edu>
-
- PM> The font characters printed out from CW are actually a bit wider
- PM> than when printed from Word.
-
- Could be Word's "Fractional Widths", where it takes advantage of the
- fact that in a particular font the letter "e" might really be 3.5 points
- wide, and actually doesn't round up to 4 (like ClarisWorks probably
- does). This is actually something MS kind of did right (of course, it
- would have been nice if it had worked on all printers from the start;
- they didn't expect ATM, so they originally disabled this feature on
- ImageWriters...)
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