Re: too small inter-word spacing

[Greg A. Woods]

At Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:45:29 -0700, Clint Olsen wrote:
Subject: Re: too small inter-word spacing
> 
> On Sep 05, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > GhostView almost always produces horrible inter-word and even inter-
> > letter spacing for me (at least on X11 displays), at least for lout
> > _and_ groff output but perhaps other generators too, and usually
> > regardless of which font faces or sizes are used (though some are far
> > worse than others).
> > 
> > The real test is how it looks on the printed page -- especially from a
> > "real" PostScript(tm) printer.
> > 
> > I never trust the gv preview for any alignment or spacing issues.
> 
> GS/GV's rendition is actually pretty accurate if you have the real fonts
> that the printer would use.  You can download font packs from Adobe etc.
> for a fee and install those in GV for much higher quality output.

Using GV at that level of accuracy and in that way isn't worth even a
penny more to me, even if it is a one-time cost.

If I'm writing something that's going to eventually have to appear on
paper anyway then I've already effectively committed to paying however
many pennies it will cost to print at least one draft out on real paper,
though I suppose if I were writing and printing new documents every day
then I would come to trust the tools well enough for at least the
simplest of those documents such that I could review drafts on my
screen.

However in the case where I just need a quick draft preview I don't care
that the screen view isn't quite the most accurate representation of the
final product, and that's especially true given that I don't have a
1200dpi (or even a 300dpi) display in the first place (though of course
magnification of the screen view can go much further than .

I.e., the true print quality draft is what I want to see whenever I want
to see the finest details of typesetting and layout.

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