From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 16:53:40 EDT
> "rendering" slightly differently. The metrics are the same ones, and
> thus printed material should not be affected.
>
> > * actual installed fonts differ based on platform
>
There is yet another issue here that we will have to face sooner or
later. On win32 the layout depends on the PRINTER. If you take a
big Word doc and change from one printer to a completely different
printer, the layout of the doc may change, for instance, you could
have more pages. This because pt is not a truly physical unit; there
are about 72 points / inch, 'about' being the operative word. If the
printer has built in fonts such as the basic windows fonts, and that is
very common, it might print using them, and they can be different
than the system fonts -- smaller, wider, narrower, differently hinted,
what ever. If we want a truly wysiwyg behaviour, we will have to do
the layout for the printer, not for the system fonts.
Tomas
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