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- From: 90taobri@BLUFFS.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (TAO BRIAN T)
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- Subject: Re: Word Spacing
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 15:59:36 GMT
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- The following revelation escaped PKBRANDON@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU's lips:
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- >Has anyone else had a problem with GS word processors when attempting to
- >bold-face, underline or italicize a word in a sentence? Looks OK on the
- >screen, but when it's printed out the spacing between the styled and
- >unstyled text is erratic (sometimes no space, sometimes too many).
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- Underlining shouldn't affect letter spacing, but bold and italic might
- cause some unwanted side effects. None of the WP/DTP software I use on the
- GS handles "fractional spacing". You need that when you edit a document on
- a low-resolution device and transfer it to a high-resolution device for
- output. On a StyleWriter, one screen pixel (typically the distance between
- letters) translates to 5 printer pixels. Therefore, you can only have some
- multiple of 5 pixels between printed letters. What happens if the optimum
- spacing is, say, 3 pixels? It gets rounded off to 5 pixels. That's one
- reason why spacing sometimes looks erratic. Bold and italic styles affect
- character widths, and the effect is amplified on the printer. I find that
- outline fonts don't have this problem, but *make sure* you are using "true"
- bold/italic/bold-italic outlines, not the QuickDraw II synthesized ones.
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