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- From: gcook@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Greg Cook|xxxxxx)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: TrueType Equivalent for Palatino?
- Message-ID: <1jm993INN644@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 13:42:59 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.163515.24506@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- From article <1993Jan20.163515.24506@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, by mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539):
- > In article <1jjit8INN6au@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> gcook@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Greg Cook|xxxxxx) writes:
- >>From article <1993Jan20.063451.28377@data-io.com>, by jewell@Data-IO.COM (Cal Jewell):
- >>> I'm looking for a TrueType equivalent for the Palatino type face.
- >>
- >>If you are sending your document to a printer with palatino resident on it,
- >>I've found that you don't have to have the font installed on your computer
- >>to use it. Here's what I do in WFW:
- >>
- >>Highlight the font box and type palatino. WFW uses some other font
- >>for the screen, but when I print my document to a postscript file,
- >>it includes the "palatino" font name in it, since the printer has
- >>it installed. When I send this file to our laserwriter II at work,
- >>it prints out in palatino.
- >
- > Doesn't that sort of make WYSIWYG not work quite right, what with
- > differences in inter-character distance and such? Note that there is
- > also a file containing DISPLAY ONLY versions of the 'standard' 35
- > Postscript fonts which was distributed by Adobe. If you install these
- > fonts, your screen will use the right font when you select Palatino
- > (at least I think that is one of the standard 35). Anyway, this file
- > should be available on cica and its mirrors.
-
- Actually, you are right, but I have found that whatever font WFW substitutes
- on the screen sure is a pretty close match as far as spacing is concerned
- and I don't have any problems.
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