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- From: Graham_Parkinson@mindlink.bc.ca (Graham Parkinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Excellence3 Printing
- Message-ID: <14834@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 05:48:43 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Distribution: world
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- > Graham Parkinson writes:
- >
- > Msg-ID: <14821@mindlink.bc.ca>
- > Posted: 3 Sep 92 18:28:58 GMT
- >
- > Stuff about the blank page problem ----
- >
- > I have found that ver3 seems to treat postscript font scaling
- > differently than under ver2. The SCALE=72 tooltype and the pitch
- > settings are identical on my two versions. However the letters
- > are all squashed, and without legible spaces between words under
- > ver3 even though they are fine with the same font under ver2.
- > Having the SCALE variable embedded in the tooltype seems
- > like a real loss of control since one has to restart the program
- > inorder to change it. THis should really be in Page Setup.
- > --
- > ******************************************************************
- > * Graham Parkinson - Frontier GeoSciences, Vancouver BC CANADA *
- > * uunet Graham_Parkinson@Mindlink.bc.ca *
- > ******************************************************************
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- Oops.....
-
- My embarrassment is public: the above scaling problem was "simply" caused
- by using Non UPPER case tooltypes in the Ver3 icon. Still, I think that
- using a tool type is one of the worst ways of controlling font scaling.
- --
- ******************************************************************
- * Graham Parkinson - Frontier GeoSciences, Vancouver BC CANADA *
- * uunet Graham_Parkinson@Mindlink.bc.ca *
- ******************************************************************
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