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HP LaserJet Series II - Outdenting On The Rig |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: The customer is having problems with outdenting (text not aligning) on the right margins when printing a document. He is using the HP WordPerfect Cartridge and also the Bitstream 13.4 Dutch Roman font and some of the other Dutch Roman fonts. He is using the HP LaserJet Series II printer. Another customer using WPWin experienced incorrect spacing with TrueType fonts. Solutions: These problems are rounding errors that occur as WP and WPWin try to change the widths of the characters to match the point size. This is based on the font spacing information being passed to WP and WPWin and then included in the .WRS file at the time of update. If the font is not an exact point size (e.g., 72.24pt), then rounding errors occur as WPWin scales the font up and down. The font information is installed into WPCorp drivers using a TFM (Tag Font Metric) file. These files give the width of the characters based on a 248.92pt size. Obviously, this will not scale very well to a 12pt font using 3600ths of an inch. These TFM files are created by a company called AGFA Compugraphics. Any other company that uses TFM files, made by them, will experience the same problems (e.g., Pacific Data Scalable font cartridges). Pacific Data, in their training mentioned this problem. As a quote from their handout - "Have found that the spacing problem caused when using right justification resides initially in the TFM files provided by AGFA Compugraphics and there is no solution at this time." Along with Pacific Data, the developers also state that there is no solution at this time. AGFA is aware of the problem that customers are experiencing. Also, this has been improved with the 11/13/92 printer drivers. |
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