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HP LaserJet IIP And HP LaserJet III Printers
DocumentID: 645688
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:08 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The user has Type Director and has made some Univers 12pt fonts with the HP Roman 8 character set. He is using an HP LaserJet IIP printer and an HP LaserJet III printer with a built-in Univers font. He is getting inconsistent spacing problems between these two setups. In addition, the line height of the Line Printer fonts for each printer is different. If he checks the line height or pitch width in WordPerfect, the numbers are significantly different.

Another customer who is using an HP LaserJet III and a CG Times font is having a problem with dot-leaders not lining up. Solutions: The difference in spacing between the Univers fonts is caused because of a rounding error when WP scales the HP LaserJet III font. The width of the font, taken from HP's TFM file (font information) is based on a 248.92 point size. This width when scaled to a 12pt font does not go into 3600ths of an inch evenly, so there will be some rounding errors. This rounding could throw off a line by as much as 1/100th of an inch or possibly more, which could cause the line to wrap differently. WP has no way of working with this type of rounding error at this time. The line height difference between the two Line Printer 16.66 pitch fonts is a mistake that will not be corrected in this version. The difference is between the default leading between the two definitions. The HP LaserJet III has a 0 default leading where the HP LaserJet IIP has a .5 leading. Leading is the white space between lines.

The dot-leader alignment problem will be corrected in the printer drivers dated after 07/17/92. The customer should be sent a new printer driver.

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