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Line Draw With 12cpi Not Lining Up
DocumentID: 650272
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:28:58 PM

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

Problem

Symptoms: If you select Line Draw 12cpi on the Panasonic KX-P4450 Laser, press Tab once, then draw a vertical line using line draw, the first character of that line is moved to the right. If you use Courier 10cpi, it will work fine. Solutions: You have a tab at 1.5", but 5 spaces at 12cpi only get you to 1.4167", so the line is broken. Had you used 6 spaces, then all the line draw characters would have been at 1.5" and the line would be continuous. The fundamental problem is that line draw creates lines that are straight on the screen -- to do this, it uses the display pitch. If you select the 12cpi font as your document initial font, then the display pitch will be set appropriately for that font, but since you only selected it as a base font at the top of the document, the display pitch is still set for the 10cpi document initial font. Such problems are not unique to line draw -- you will have the same kinds of problems if you trust the screen to line up things and mix tabs and spaces without having your display pitch set properly (which is done automatically when you select the document initial font).

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