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Bitstream Fonts Converting To One Point Size
DocumentID: 642843
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:18:48 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: A customer's 5.0 documents are not converting to 5.1 properly. He purchased the new Bitstream Fontware for 5.1 and recreated all of the same fonts that he had created in 5.0. When he retrieves a 5.0 document into 5.1, the font converts to one point size smaller. For example, in one document he created in 5.0, he selected Dutch Roman 12pt. When he retrieved that document into 5.1, the font changed to Dutch Roman 11pt. Solutions: The problem is with the 5.0 Bitstream average PS font widths in the 5.0 .ALL file. The wrong widths were assigned to the fonts. In 5.1, Bitstream installed a different width into the .ALL file, and this was the correct width. When the customer retrieved his 5.0 documents into 5.1, WordPerfect saw the difference in width. WP then thought that the font was smaller, so the program selected a smaller font. For this problem, a new version of PTR has been released dated after 09/26/90. This release allows a user to change the average PS width. The following steps corrected the problem for the customer:
1.      Retrieve the 5.0 .ALL file into the PTR program
2.      Select the printer
3.      Select Fonts
4.      Cursor to the FW fonts
5.      You will want to edit every FW font, and in Size and Spacing, write down the Average PS Width found in the box below
6.      Next, retrieve the 5.1 .ALL file
7.      Select the printer
8.      Select Fonts
9.      Select the FW library
10.      Edit every font, and with the Average PS Widths you have written down, do the following:
1.      Select Size and Spacing
2.      Select the PS table twice
3.      You will see Average Width
4.      Enter in the value you have written down for that font, and repeat the steps 1 - 4 for all the other fonts
5.      Exit and save


Note: In order to use these steps you will need to have the same Bitstream fonts installed in both the 5.0 and 5.1 .ALL files. You will need a release more current than the 09/26/90 PTR program. You should only use this modified driver for 5.0 documents printed in 5.1. Do not save new 5.1 documents with this modified printer definition.

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