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#Non-proportional fonts?

    21-Nov-91 15:14:12
Fm: Gary Brusanowski 70304,2516
To: Mike Todd 70117,634
Mike: While PPage or PgS could make a font fixed space via software, it would look terrible. A fixed width font has to be designed in such a way that all the characters take up roughly the same space along the x-axis. If I went into the Times .metric file in PPage and reset all the metric values to, let's say, the bounding box x-width, that wouldn't account for the fact that the letter "i" takes up alot less space horizontally than "W", for instance. Just being picky, Gary – Mirror Image Prod. (416) 495-7469, via WHAP!