LaserWriter Driver 6.0: Palatino Bold Print Size Problem



I am using PageMaker 3.02 and LaserWriter Driver 6.0.

When printing Palatino Bold, the printed character appears to print one point
smaller: a line of 9-point Plain text looks a little bigger than 9-point Bold
text in Palatino. It's really noticeable when printing numbers.

This happens whether you use the Apple driver or the Aldus driver. I tried
this in Microsoft Word 4.0, and it happens there as well. Can you explain?

We were able to duplicate the problem you describe and found that Palatino Bold
prints about one dot (not point size), or about 1/300 inch, smaller than the
Plain text Palatino. This is the result of the PostScript definition of the
font and is independent of application or driver.

This can be fixed only with a change to the ROM.

The only solution with this combination of PageMaker and the LaserWriter
Driver, is to use a different font family.


Published Date: Feb 18, 2012