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Subject:Re: Font problems in long docs From:"Dennis Hays/The Burden Lake Group, Ltd." <dlhays -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 9 Jul 1996 17:03:29 -0400
At 10:59 AM 7/9/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Lisa writes:
>>I'm having a problem getting the True Type font Garamond to print =
>>properly in a long document with graphics. I'm getting inter-letter =
>>spacing problems as well as overlapping text when I print. It doesn't =
>>happen when I switch to Times New Roman.
David said:>
>I have this trouble intermittently with many TT fonts. It seems more likely
>in long and frequently revised documents than in short letters. My cure is
>to restart the computer. The less drastic cure of closing and re-opening
>PageMaker often works, but doesn't get rid of the cag in the resources file.
This was a common problem on PCs with Windows 3.1/3.11 when the resource
heaps got too low. Rebooting reset the User and GDI heaps back to their high
point. It doesn't seem to be a problem under 95 though.
Dennis Hays\The Burden Lake Group, Ltd.
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