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- From: jbayer@ispi.COM (Jonathan Bayer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: AmiPro 3.0 font metrics wrong?
- Keywords: font metrics, AmiPro 3.0, WYSIWYG?
- Message-ID: <2519@ispi.COM>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 13:37:58 GMT
- References: <hess.721296906@rzdspc14> <1992Nov15.183315.19594@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> <9815@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <1992Nov19.005748.18442@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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- dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
-
- >In article <9815@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
- >>>The appearance on
- >>>the screen is not good, but just about acceptable, but when I print a
- >>>page! I get mysterious extra blank spoace, as you describe, but the
- >>>print size is way out and the characters themselves look as if they've
- >>>been printed on a particularly bad 9-pin dot matrix printer.
- >>
- >>The default resolution in AmiPro seems to 75 dpi. Don't ask me why;
- >>nobody prints in draft mode on laser printers nowadays. But change it to
- >>300, where it belongs, and things should improve. Took me a while to
- >>figure this one out; thanks, Lotus!
-
- AmiPro doesn't know what kind of printer you are printing on. It defaults to
- 75 DPI because that is what most dot-matrix printers print at, and there are
- a lot of dot matrix printers being used.
-
- >Now I;'m wondering if I should have let AmiPro install ATM at all. If
- >I take the atmsys.drv out of the WinOS2 system.ini file then the ATM
- >fonts which come with OS/2 appear beautifully on the screen, but all
- >my extra ones - which I'd installed with the Windows version of ATM
- >don't. Now, when I try to add them using the OS/2 procedure (i.e.
- >popup mennu from the printer driver, etc.) I can't find any fonts at
- >all. The problem appears to be that - according to the online help -
- >each font should have two files, a .PFB and a .AFM, whereas the
- >public-domain ones I picked up for Windows each consist of a .PFB and
- >a .PFM file. Are the AFM and PFM equivalent, or do I have to find
- >poublic domain foints for OS/2 separately.
-
- I have the same problem. The AFM and PFM files are different, and you
- will have to find public domain fonts for OS/2 separately.
-
- BTW, Win-OS2 already has ATM installed. You have to go into the Win-OS2
- full screen mode, start up ATM, and load in the ATM fonts. The
- Win-OS2 ATM is separate from the OS2 ATM, and they use different font
- directories. You should be able to install your Windows ATM fonts under
- Win-OS2 and be able to use them within AmiPro. I do, and it works well.
-
- I do not run AmiPro in seamless mode because there are a couple of small
- bugs in the seamless code that prevents the buttons at the bottom of the
- AmiPro screen from working properly, but they do work in full screen
- Win-OS2 mode.
-
- >Thanks,
-
- Your welcome.
-
-
-
- JB
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