ClarisWorks: Improving WYSIWYG Results With Adobe Type Manager

This information was provided by Claris Corporation on 16 March 1998, and incorporated into Apple Computer's Tech Info Library.
What you see on screen should, ideally, look exactly the same as what is printed. Unfortunately, screen display never perfectly matches printed output because monitors have lower resolution than printers. With fewer pixels available to represent a character of a given size, the screen display generally deviates to some degree from the printed output. Windows application use either 72 or 96 pixels on screen for each inch of paper displayed. Most Laser printers print at 300 pixels per inch of paper. The limitation of matching screen display and printout is caused by roundoff errors in converting the number of pixels used for the text onscreen to the number of pixels used for the text on printout.

When using Adobe Type Manager with a PCL printer such as an HP Laserjet, checking the "Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts" check box in the ATM control panel lets the printer driver use fonts resident on the printer itself at print time. However, screen and printer fonts are separate and do not match as well as a scaled font such as an ATM font or a True Type font. When you clear the Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts check box, your text and graphic images will print as displayed on-screen.

Full justified text set to a small point size sometimes extends beyond the right margin on screen, but prints correctly. The screen font Windows has picked is a different size, and turning off the Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts option in the ATM Control Panel can help improve the match between screen display and printed output.
Published Date: Feb 18, 2012