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Conference 7.286::postscript_printing

Title:	Digital PostScript printers and their associated software

Moderator:	REGENT::LASKOHER

Created:	Wed Jan 24 1990
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	7230
Total number of notes:	31971

7163.0. "Overlapping characters on LPS17 from NT." by NZOV02::SHARPDAVID () Wed Apr 16 1997 00:41

    Reference Note 6785 regarding various problems printing from Windows
    NT, I have a customer experiencing similar problems with overlapping
    characters printing to LPS17s from NT.
    Can someone tell me if there were any answers to that Note?
    
    If not, can you suggest reasons for the overlapping character syndrome?
    
    Dave

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7163.1		REGENT::WOLF	`Wed Apr 16 1997 09:52`	8
	If I remember my terminology correctly, the customer is using, for one reason or another, a fixed-spaced font where a variable spaced should be used. I believe this causes the character spacing to be squished. Exactly how is the document being created and how are fonts being selected?? jeff
7163.2		REGENT::POWERS	`Thu Apr 17 1997 09:01`	9
	What font is being used in the printout? If it is Courier, then this is likely a case where the font specified in the PS file is not available in the printer and Courier is being substituted. As Jeff notes, Courier is a fixed-width font, and the fixed width of its characters is fairly wide. The character placements planned in the document would normally be for narrower characters, so the expected result would be overlapping characters. - tom]