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- From: jon@chopin.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch)
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- Subject: Re: Tons 'O questions about fonts/printer drivers, etc...
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- Date: 17 Aug 92 04:18:58 GMT
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- In article <Bt3q8r.1Fw@news.udel.edu> jon@chopin.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch) writes:
- |>OK, I'm a new PC user, and I just got MS Word for Win 2.0.
- |>I also have an NEC P5200 24pin dot matrix printer.
- |>
- |>I am a *tad* confused about screen fonts, printer fonts, and truetype
- |>fonts.
- |>
- |>What seems to be happening is this:
- |>Any truetype font (ie: Courier New) that my printer has a built-in font
- |>for (ie: NEC Courier), gets automatically made into a printer font.
- |>In other words, I am unable to print out any truetype fonts that my
- |>printer has similar built-in fonts for!
- |>
- Well, upon further investigation, this is not true.
- What is really happening is that with a few truetype fonts
- (ie: Arial, Times New Roman), I get bitmapped fonts to my printer
- (ie: ugly). Why is this? Other truetypes like Wingdings work
- just fine with my printer!
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- | | |\ |>jon@chopin.udel.edu<| "For my 2 cents, |
- | \|on |/eutsch |>>-----------------<<| I'd pay a dollar" |
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