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Re: More on the reports I am working on

The version of Courier from Adobe is indeed a "true monospaced font."
All character widths are exactly the same. And the font characteristics
also are set for monospace.

        - Dov

At 12/5/2002 08:55 AM, Peter Gold wrote:
>I seem to remember reading somewhere that Courier isn't a true mono-spaced font. Perhaps this is the cause of the problem.
>
>Regards,
>
>Peter
>
>At 4:50 PM -0800 12/4/02, Sharon Burton-Hardin wrote:
>>These financial reports are text from Word. The letters, numbers, etc are
>>all aligned using the space bar. (I didn't do this and the budget does not
>>allow for redoing the reports as other things, like screen captures or
>>putting the text in tables).
>>
>>They come into Frame OK, but sometimes the columns of numbers do not align
>>on the decimal. They seem to be a half space off. The decimal on one line is
>>right above the space between .0 on the line below it. It does this both in
>>print and on screen so it is real.
>>
>>Courier 6 point font, no kerning, no additional spacing, very vanilla.
>>
>>The alignment is very important to the client as the training from this
>>manual focuses on the reports examples. This is high visibility and the
>>decimals need to align.
>>
>>Any ideas? I can change to other couriers if that will help.
>
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