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Re: Word 97 and non-proportional fonts

Posted by L. Erwin on Wednesday, 7 October 1998, at 11:36 a.m., in response to Word 97 and non-proportional fonts, posted by Kathy Koppinger on Wednesday, 7 October 1998, at 7:41 a.m.

Thanks for the tip. I have a user with a similar problem, and this might take care of it. Thanks!

> I posted a message a while back
> about Word 97 printing non-proportional
> fonts incorrectly. We get a lot of spaced
> out ASCII output for which we use Word
> to create PDF files. Word 95 did it
> beautifully but Word 97 didn't line
> up the characters correctly so the ends
> of the lines didn't match up. I just
> wanted to post a follow-up because I
> figured out how to make Word print these
> correctly. If you change the compatibility
> options for the document to Word 6.0/95
> it prints correctly. I believe the option
> that makes the difference is the "Use
> printer metrics to lay out document"
> option. I have no idea why this would
> be necessary. After all if you're using
> a non-proportional font, wouldn't you
> want it all to line up???

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