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Font Courier 12cpi No Longer Available?
DocumentID: 634209
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 3:03:35 PM

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

Problem

Solutions: A very common question from customers is why we stopped supporting the Courier 12cpi fonts on the HP Laser Printers (namely the HP LaserJet and the LaserJet Series II). In 4.2 these 12cpi fonts were defined right on our printer drivers. What we did was simply compress the 10cpi font built into the printer into 12cpi. There wasn't then (and isn't now) actually a 12cpi font in those printers. In versions 5.X, 12cpi can be obtained by going into Shift-F8 (Format), 4 (Other), 6 (Printer Functions), 3 (Word and Letter Spacing), and then setting the pitch on both word and letter spacing (Option 4) to 12cpi. What this does is compress the 10cpi into 12cpi. However this is not a "true" 12cpi font as is found on the HP IID's, IIP's, III's, etc. The 12cpi fonts on these newer printers have actual 12cpi characters and as a result are shorter (smaller point size). This means that although horizontally a "true" 12cpi and a "compressed" 12cpi will look the same, more lines will appear on the page with the "true" 12cpi because the line height is less. This will cause documents created using one to look much different when converted to the other.

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