While running Microsoft Word 3.02 and LaserWriter Driver 5.1, some users
find that the London and Venice fonts print fine -- but that after they
upgrade to LaserWriter Driver 5.2, the fonts print jaggedly.
LaserWriter Driver 5.2 added a feature to allow smoothing on text,
graphics, or both. This was different from previous versions where
smoothing was a global option. Driver 5.2 provides greater control over
the document by letting the user choose among three options.
Venice and London are bitmapped screen fonts and require smoothing when
printing. Because Microsoft Word uses its own Page Setup and Print
dialogs, it does not properly select the two different smoothing options.
It selects smoothing for graphics only.
You can test this by cutting and pasting a PICT of Venice text from
MacPaint into Microsoft Word. The picture of the text will be smoothed,
but some Venice text in the same Microsoft Word document will not be.
The problem could have been worked around by letting the user select and
print with the system's Print dialog. Microsoft Word lets the user display
the system dialogs by holding the Shift key when selecting Page Setup or
when selecting Print. However, with Microsoft Word, the system's Print
dialog command is ignored, and the Microsoft Word dialog must be used.
Products like MacWrite, that use the standard system Print dialogs, smooth
correctly with the new driver.