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- From: veatch@cs.toronto.edu (Tim Veatch)
- Subject: Re: xfig2.1.6: problems with using multiple fonts
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 22:47:00 GMT
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- chris@luchs (Christian Forst) writes:
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- >When I try to write text in xfig and want to use different fonts or just try
- >to apply indizes - placing appropriate sized characters by hand - the
- >layout I see on the screen and what I get when printed differs tremendous.
- >The position of the charakters on the screen have nothing to do with the
- >position I get on the paper. Even when zooming in xfig I get different
- >positions.
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- This is what I get from the xfig man page:
- > BUGS
- > Text strings will appear differently on hard copy, because
- > the display fonts are fixed-width fonts while the fonts used
- > by the typesetter systems are variable-width fonts.
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