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Printers Using Space-Fill - Spacing Off With |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
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Solutions: If a printer uses a space-fill driver it will have problems horizontally placing different size text on the same line. This is caused by a rounding error as far as the position at which the character should print. For instance, if you are using a 10 pitch font and you get to position 1.1 and need to place a superscript character at that position, a 17 pitch superscript character can not be place exactly at .1, it can be placed at either .05" or at .11". In either case it is going to be horizontally misplaced relative to the rest of the text. With printers that use a space-fill type motion, there is little that can be done to correct this. The one suggestion that may be made to customers is to change their superscript, subscript, or other attribute fonts such as small, fine, etc. to the same pitch as their base font (i.e., a superscript font could be changed from 17cpi to 10cpi half-height). This could, of course, cause complications in itself, the customer will have to decide which limitations they can accept. The printers that may have this problem include, but are not limited to, Many IBM Proprinters, Many Star printers especially the NX series, many ALPS printers, and most older dot-matrix printers. In order to determine whether a printer is space-fill you may perform the following in PTR. 1. Enter PTR, retrieve the PRS file, press Enter on the printer 2. Move to Fonts and press Enter. 3. Highlight a fixed-pitch font and press Enter. 4. Move to Size and Spacing information and press Enter. 5. Note the horizontal Motion Units. If they are identical to the pitch of the font, the printer is space-fill. |
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