PS Output Problem
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I'm not sure if this is a PostScript problem or a typeface problem. If you'll
recall from my previous frantic messages, I'm running PM 1.0a on an AT clone
with Windows 286 version 2.1 (to which I recently upgraded). A very annoying
problem happened on a recent job and I suspect it has something to do with my
PostScript driver (which, as far as I know, is the most recent one, packaged
with Windows). I was using Futura as a display face, but when I used it in
sizes larger than 24 point I got very strange output, although it looked fine
on-screen. The job was a tabloid magazine, so we proofed the pages at reduced
size and everything looked fine. The problem only occurred when I went to
final, full-sized, Lino output. What seemed to occur was that my word spacing
disappeared and was replaced by extra letter spacing to space the headlines out
over their proper width. This is hard to illustrate here but the heads came out
something like this:
Instead of a headline like so
Ig o tah e a d l i n el i k es o
For the lino output (and for the laser proofs) I had outputted my pages into
PostScript files, which I then took into the service bureau for printing.
Any ideas about what happened?